The Fae Bound by Juliana Haygert

Author:Juliana Haygert [Haygert, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

13

Farrah

Not long after that failed dinner party Lark threw to his diplomats, the poison was ready. In the middle of the night, I carefully poured some of the poison into a glass vial and put it inside my pocket.

It was late, but I knew that tonight, Lark was busy with a new diplomat who had come to speak with him from the fae realm. He would be late to his chambers. I could easily lie I wanted to see her, to wait for him at his chambers, and slip the poison into his wine, the one he drank day and night, proclaiming it was energizing.

In the morning, he would wake up, drink a sip, and fall dead.

I snuck out of my chambers, relieved Lark thought the fortress was already well guarded and hadn’t ordered guards to stay outside my doors. I walked down the hallways, avoiding the patrols and areas where I knew guards were positioned.

Though, as I rounded a corner just before the stairs that led to the fortress's highest floor, where Lark’s chambers, were located, voices reached my ears.

I stilled, afraid of being discovered.

“… soldier came back a few hours ago,” a voice said. I recognized it. It was General Auron. “The camp is secure, and the frost fae are all submissive as planned.”

My stomach dropped. What?

“Good,” someone else said. It was one of Lark’s advisors. “I knew they wouldn’t rebel for long. They can’t. They have nowhere to go. How about Daleigh?”

“He was beaten up into submission. I don’t think he’ll be a problem, at least for a while.”

I pressed a hand over my mouth as shock and rage mixed within me.

“With him down, the other frost fae won’t do anything,” the advisor continued. “They will be quiet, little prisoners, as they should be.”

My hands curled into fists. I wanted to storm out of my hiding place, lunge on these two fae, and kill them on the spot.

So Lark had lied to me. He had said Daleigh and the other frost fae had returned home and were free. Well, they had returned home, but now they were all imprisoned in a prison camp.

My rage took the best of me and I advanced, intent on torturing them both, and ripping every one of their muscles while they screamed and begged me to stop, and—

Footsteps sounded from behind me. I quickly ducked under an archway and quietly opened a door, which I knew led to an empty guest bedroom. I closed the door and waited, listening for the steps and the voices to fade away.

My heart racing, my vision swimming in red fury, I leaned my back against the wall beside the door and tried to calm down.

But I couldn’t. I wouldn’t calm down, not entirely. I clutched the vial with poison inside my pocket. Now more than ever, I wanted to kill the damn fae prince. It wasn’t just because I couldn’t stand staying by his side for eternity anymore. It was for his lies, for my people, for everything!

He was just as evil as his father.

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