Chapter 84

He looks down the more taking hold arm above elbow he me along. After a moment, the air and my chest like weight has been lifted it. I inhale sharply my eyes closing relishing the air that fills my lungs.

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she doing out of her someone and I snap Jennifer standing in front of us, her hands on her hips, her glowing like an ember in a waning .

“Move ” the guard with me grunts out, taking an imposing toward her. She rolls her and shifts her hips before she glances at me and back him curious to her brow “No.” She a chance in hell. She shouldn’t be out of her cell, Tieran.”

“The king wanted her and he done, he demanded I take back to her cell. Unless you think you higher ranking than him, I I .

He bites out at her She looks surprised, as her demeanor changes and she clears throat, looking back down the way we came from.

“He She sounding little worried.

Of he He snorts.

“And he “The king and does as he . He doesn’t you or anyone an explanation, so I suggest you stop questioning what he is doing and step .”

, pushing me forward.

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just that Giselle said…” she trails off for moment and clears her throat. Her demeanor changes completely she smooths her outfit out with her hands and steps to the side.

Carry on,”

Tieran frowns at her but ushers me along, looking over his shoulder before frowning he turns me down a different hallway. He presses me into the wall, peeking around the corner for second, and then he hums in thought.

obvious something is amiss but with not knowing either of them well and having no desire to know them any better than I currently do, I keep my mouth shut.

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she not seem suspicious to you?”

asks, absentmindedly.

“Uh, I give him confused look, and he blinks down at me like he forgot it even squished between him and the wall. Tieran takes a step back and his throat before looking around the new hallway.

“I need to follow her.” He frowns, he looks at me and groans in frustration. “Shit.”

“I can find my back ” I offer and he chuckles under his breath.

Yeah, and I’m a fucking fairy.” He he walks me down the new hallway reluctantly.

“Why don’t you don’t trust the king?”

ask quietly, and he snorts. “She already expressed she doesn’t trust Giselle.”

I the time I being tortured, and she was told that she was wanted upstairs. She threw a fit, and it seemed like she didn’t like the chosen of the king anything, he should work with Jennifer, not me, to figure out what it wrong with his king. Though, admittedly, already know what wrong with his king.

He is spell of Lily, and Giselle using him how she That’s what she does. She manipulates everything and everyone to her whim.

what?

that the question I am trying to work out.

, they want me I am a hybrid, but why do they keep me alive?

Simple ” He “I don’t Jennifer either scoff, by of trust in the kingdom everyone still fights for what are told, even if they don’t with it. Who the fights blindly something they don’t in?

Oh “I trust .” He reaching to me a nudge forward. I skirt from him with a and he .

Why do doing that? I’m at him and he into a full–blown smile.

“To who is boss shrugs And it’s amusing to watch you huff and a fit I blink at him for second is he friendly with me?

dragon can be his smiles shoving weirdly about want me strike can this hell hole.

, trying calm looks around frantically then trains his annoyed on your volume,” he hisses at her his name echoes down the stone walls. He , his body going rigid as he looks around. He grabs me the back of the neck, making me out in pain.

But he is too distracted rushing down the hall about what he is doing to me. We twist and turn down the halls; the air growing colder and damp until finally break into the prison again.

Someone calling your name and he nods acknowledgement.

“I am of that.” He grumbles shoving me into my . I stumble, tripping my feet as grunt and land on the hard ground. I spin to scowl up at him Jennifer comes running in out of breath, like she had been chasing us.

Tieran turns and looks at arching a brow like he hadn’t been expecting her.

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you looking for me?” He her and she grins.

“It’s time to punish them,” she grins. “The king himself said I could take as far as I need to in order to make this one do what we want.”

Jennifer’s land on me with an eerily giddy grin.

You think the other one can handle more? She is healing much slower these days.” He reminds her and she rolls her .

“You no longer outrank me prince Tieran, so how about instead of questioning me, you round the bitches up and bring them to the torture room, okay she pats him on the chest watch in awe. Prince Tieran? Yet he is stuck down here, escorting prisoners around like a lowly prison guard.

Jennifer prances off like a kid, excited about getting their way she goes to wait for Tieran to bring me and my mom back to her to do whatever the hell she wants to get me to cooperate.

turns and sighs, moving to unlock my mother’s first. As she walks past me with her head held high, she meets my gaze reminding me of what she told me earlier. To just cooperate so that Merikh at least knows I am missing.

When Tieran walks back for me after delivering my mom to the other room, I look around and then up at him.

Prince whisper and he frowns, looking away.

“That long time ago,” He sighs. “I questioned my father’s judgment, and now I am working my way back up to his side.”

“And how does offering to help me you there?” I , meandering.

“I’m not …” He in a hushed tone.

Then he pushes me through the iron door and into the room that smells of blood and stale dirt. My body shivers involuntarily as I look at my mother strung up, preparing for the pain.

“Ah, the lady of the hour. I have this little chair for you.” She grins, pointing to a silver chair. “Come, a seat…”