The Fae Queen's Warriors by Tara West

Author:Tara West [West, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shifting Sands Publishing
Published: 2020-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

“DID YOU HAVE A GOOD day, niece?” he asked as he ushered her to a chair.

She thanked his servant when she was handed a steaming cup of tea. Curtsying, the servant left the room.

“No.” She frowned into her cup. “I must ask you to please find me different living arrangements.” Her heart hurt so much, it felt near to bursting. She didn’t want to leave Quin and Theron, but she couldn’t stay with Titus after the way he’d treated her. She’d always known he was a brute, but she thought he’d soften for her. She was beginning to realize men simply didn’t change. Once brutes, always brutes.

“Safer than with Alexi’s brothers-in-arms?” He sat across from her with a steaming cup. “Men who have vowed to protect you?”

She looked away, embarrassed that perhaps he knew she’d fallen in love with her defenders. “I’ve never heard of such a vow.”

“All defenders make them when they pledge themselves to their brothers-in-arms, to protect each other’s families should one of them perish.”

“I doubt Titus would protect me.”

Anton moved closer. “He’d give his life for you.”

She looked into her uncle’s eyes, hoping, praying, he wasn’t like all other men in power. “Why’d you call me here, Uncle?” she demanded, arching away from his touch. The uncomfortable chair poked her backside.

“My spies have sent a report that you battled a dragon in Sawran,” he said. “Is this true?”

Nervous energy tickled the nape of her neck. Were Evander and Marcello his spies? “Yes,” she said, carefully watching for his reaction.

Leaning back, he drummed long, dirt-stained fingers on the table. “Tell me about it.”

“Why?” She looked away from him, feeling too self-conscious. “So you can laugh at me like Titus did?”

“I won’t laugh at you, I swear.”

“Who are your spies?”

He arched a bushy brow, flashing a slanted smile. “I can’t divulge that information.”

“Then I can’t divulge mine.”

“Kyria,” he said on a sigh, dragging a hand through his bushy gray beard. “I’m not your enemy.”

She warily eyed him. “But you’re not my friend either, are you?”

He placed a hand on his heart. “My allegiance is to the defenders, but I swear, niece, I will do whatever I can within my power to keep you safe.”

Why was telling her uncle far more daunting than confiding in Titus? Even though he was a brute, she still trusted him to guard her secrets over her uncle. “If the king knows I told you....”

“I will not tell anyone you told me.”

“The dragon had wings, Uncle,” she blurted. She mentally berated herself for so easily spilling her secrets, but she longed to tell someone who’d actually believe her.

He leaned so close, she could smell the sour mead on his breath. “Did you see him fly?”

“No.” A shiver stole up her spine as she remembered the thunderous boom that woke her from the afternoon nap she’d taken in Jade’s arms. “But I heard him land, and then I heard screams.”

“Did others see him fly?”

“It matters not.” Her stomach churned when she remembered the two imposing soldiers who’d paid her and Jade a visit.

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