The Vampire Wish: The Complete Series (Dark World) by Michelle Madow

Author:Michelle Madow [Madow, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing
Published: 2018-01-21T22:00:00+00:00

Jacen

Laila flung my double doors open with so much force that they slammed into the walls behind them.

“All of the princesses?!” She barged inside, her hair and dress flying behind her as she stomped toward where I sat at my desk. “You just eliminated all of the princesses?!” She banged her fists onto the desk, seething as she stared down at me.

Her guards took the liberty of closing my doors and leaving my room.

“You’ve heard incorrectly,” I said calmly, leaning back into my chair. “I didn’t eliminate all of the princesses. Karina and Ana still remain.”

“Oh, I did hear correctly.” She sneered. “That pretender Ana was never in the running, and you and I both know that. You will rescind your decision immediately and the other princesses will remain in the palace.”

“I will do no such thing,” I told her. “A betrayer is in our midst, and the princesses are the main suspects. You’ve told me yourself that you trust the Carpathian Kingdom, and you agreed with me that Princess Ana was best kept here, where we can keep an eye on her. By eliminating the others, I was sending home potential enemies, and thus, doing the Vale a favor.”

“You deliberately overstepped my authority,” she said. “I should have had Stephenie make this alliance, not you.”

“Except that Stephenie isn’t here,” I reminded her. “I am. And if Stephenie even managed to stop partying for long enough to get married, she would go live with her husband. With the strength of the wolves rising, we needed to do this now—you had no time to successfully turn another prince and for him to learn to control his bloodlust. I was the only option you had.”

“You overstep your place here, Jacen.” She zipped around the desk, yanked out a stake that had been strapped to her thigh, and rammed it into my stomach.

I gasped as the pain overtook my body, another crippling wave of it wracking through me as the tip of the weapon scratched my heart. One move forward and I would be dead.

Attempt to fight her and I would surely be dead, too.

“I created you.” Laila twisted the stake and smiled, clearly enjoying my grunts of pain. “I can destroy you, too.”

“Do it,” I dared her, forcing myself to speak through the agony. “It’s what you should have done last year when I killed all those humans in the village.”

“Oh, I never said I was going to kill you.” She yanked out the stake, and I pressed my hands to my stomach as my body started to heal. “There are many, many other ways a person can be destroyed. I’ve been around for long enough to know these things. Going against me was a mistake, Jacen.” She twirled the stake around and licked the tip of it, relishing in the taste of my blood before placing it down on the desk in front of me.

If I wanted to, I could grab it and attack.

But that was what Laila expected me to do.

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