Chapter 0029
If I was a less proud woman, I would have told him to stay, to do something about this… feverish desire that was starting to tear me up inside.
But I wasn’t that woman. Maybe too stubborn for my own good or just too grounded in reality.
Even if I asked, Theodore Nightshade didn’t sleep with the same woman twice.
I closed my eyes, trying to sleep off the feeling, but every time I drifted, I’d catch a whiff of his scent still lingering on the sheets or in the air, and I would become restless.
Eventually, exhaustion won out, but I only got, maybe, a restless, three–hour sleep before a strange, prickling sensation ran up my spine and refused to fade. My eyes flicked around the room, and after a minute of trying to ignore it, I gave up and started to dress, moving through the dark, cautious of another wave of pain and of whatever I could run into in the dark/Whatever this feeling was, I wasn’t going to shake it lying here.
I padded down the hall, tightening the belt on my robe as I reached the ground floor. The light coming in through the large panes of glass that lined the hallways told me that it was closer to dawn than midnight. The view was beautiful. The sun was climbing up over the mountain, starting a new day. I was being pulled toward the front door when I heard it: Lucas’s voice. His words, tinged with anger and something like desperation, reached me. I tensed, feeling an instinctive rush of disgust.
Had his presence been the reason why I woke up? The thought chilled me and unnerved me. Something instinctual in me felt hopeful that maybe our bond wasn’t broken, and that made me even more angry. Why would I ever want a bond with a traitor, with a man who tried to kill me?
I drew myself to my full height and headed toward the front door.
In the doorway, Theodore was leaning against the frame with an air of command. His warriors were just outside the door, forming a solid wall between Lucas and the steps. There was no way past them. I lingered, hidden just out of sight, watching the scene unfold. Lucas‘ car was parked in front of the house, and I wrinkled my nose.
It was just like him to drive in a place where there wasn’t proper infrastructure because it was most convenient for him. I remembered how often it had become an argument between us that I insisted on changing to carriages when crossing certain borders. It had been a matter of respect and safety and ended up paving the way to many great business ventures for Darkmoon.
The selfish bastard…
I hoped Theodore put him through the wringer in Court about endangering his citizens.
Chapter da20
“Have him taken back to the border,” Theodore said, his voice firm and unyielding.
The real question was why he was here. The only thing I could think was that Lucas had either started to notice that he didn’t have access to the kind of money he was used to spending any longer, had started to realize that his little plan was going to fail, or that he sensed Theodore’s mark on me and like the selfish man I knew him to be, he’d rushed here in the middle of the night to confrout me, refusing to let go of what little claim he had left.
It irritated me that even now, he thought he had a claim on me that he had the right to think he did.
I stepped forward, my sudden presence catching Lucas’s attention. He looked up at me, his face a mixture of anger and pleading. I felt the usual disgust curl inside me, stronger than before.
Lucas took a step toward me, his eyes dark with desperation. He was pushed back by the Midnight warriors.
“You can’t do this to me,” he said, his voice cracking. Lucas’s eyes widened, his face twisting into a pleading look. “My pack can’t function without you. Neither can your people.”
Something cold and sharp settled inside me.
“What do you mean by that?”
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