Chapter 0110
Chapter 0110
“Lola is settling in. She really likes her room and the gardens” Emory turns to her sister. “Pige, Lor
The little girl nods but still looks at me like she wants me to leave.
“She’s not used to being around vampires,” Emory explains. “It’s going to take some time until she gets used to everything. Remember when I first arrived here?
“You had a terrible introduction to this world thanks to Clark. I don’t blame you for how scared you were”
“I wasn’t scared,” she argues,
“I saw how you handled yourself with the guards, but you were not that good at hiding your fears around the other vampires. We could smell it on you.”
“You could?
I nod. Seeing the distrust in the little girl’s eyes makes me want to leave, so I tell Emory I will see her in the morning. “If you need anything, you know where to find me.”
She smiles, knowingly. Memories of us in my room together, our naked bodies tangled up in my sheets would have gotten me hard, but I willed those thoughts away. Tonight won’t be the best time for such things. I wouldn’t be good company anyway.
I move and kiss her lightly, still conscious of the gray eyes glaring at me like I am a perpetrator in my own home. “Goodnight.”
Emory smiles, softly, melting from my touch. “Goodnight, Kane.” She pats Lola’s shoulder. “Say good night, Lola,”
Lola murmurs a “Night” with no particular enthusiasm. I leave because I want to be back in my room and go to bed. I reach my bedroom door as Lex appears with a bottle of blood in hand. He holds it up like an offering
“You look like you need a drink.”
I open my bedroom door and let him in. This is an old ritual going back to our long ago days of youth. Something would happen, and we would escape to somewhere in the castle to talk it out with a bottle of the best stock. Whatever walls we put up around each other would melt away, and we would talk freely with the sillent agreement that what was said during these nights would never be repeated elsewhere.
Lex takes a swig from the bottle and asks, “What crawled up your asshole and died?”
7 talked to Clark today.“I accept the bottle from him and swallow a mouthful of blood. It’s a nice vintage He gave me some advice.”
“Why the fuck would you do that? That fossill hasn’t had a good idea in a century.”
Like a broken clock, he is right at least twice a day. And all he said was that I was being selfish.”
Lex snorts. “You? Selfish? You’re the most dutiful person I know. That’s why I always look like a dickhead next to you”
“Most royals don’t get to marry for love. They marry for the benefit of the kingdom
Chapter 0110
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“You tried to do that, but Opal is insane. And her father is a colossal prick. Hitching your carriage to that crazy herd of horses wouldn’t have done you any good.”
“I know, but Emory…”
He gives me a look. “I thought you loved Emory.”
“I do. I’ve never loved anyone like I love her.”
“But?”
I drink from the bottle, swallowing twice before handing it back to him. “I’ll have to lose her someday whether that’s old age or illness. She can’t be turned, so I have no way of prolonging her life.”
Wolf shifters can’t be turned by vampires. Nature made sure that only humans can be turned into vampires. Wolf shifters can’t be created, only born. And even if I have the option to turn her, I know Emory won’t want to be a vampire.
“So you think you have to give her up?” my brother asks.
I stare at him for a long moment before I admit, “I don’t know.”
