She smiled sadistically at me. “I don’t think I will.” She hissed and pumped the guard faster.
“Let’s just kill her now. What are we waiting for? We can rip her rapist’s hands off first. Then stuff them down her throat just before we rip her head off too.”
I agreed with him. Sometimes, we were more alike than I realized but now wasn’t the time for rash decisions.
Cyrus groaned loudly and his head tilted back just before streams of black cum shot into the crystal waters of the ocean depths. His entire body shook and then slumped into his leader.
Growling, I lunged forward, my webbed hand shooting outward and wrapping around Kira’s neck. I slammed her back hard into the rocky coral wall away from the shocked guard. “I said I had zero tolerance.” I snarled, inches away from her startled face.
Kira’s shock wore off quickly and she brushed up against me laughing. “I didn’t know you liked it rough, Emon. You sure you truly want Solaire instead of me?”
I leaned forward menacingly. I was close enough to see the fear swirling in her pink eyes. “Know this, water fae cunt. You’re notstrong enoughnorimportant enoughto play games with me. You're better off playing tiddly sticks with your little fishies. Fucking do that in front of me again and I. Will. Kill. You.”
Cyrus seemed to have recovered because I felt the sharp pointed tip of his spear piercing into my exposed back. Water churned around the three of us and Kira laughed harder.
“Tsk, tsk, shifter. That sounded like a real threat. Your dumb animal brain does remember where you are, correct?” Weaving the water between us she shoved me further onto the spear at my back but my hand held firm around her neck. The familiar searing burn of my flesh being pierced beneath my scales only forced more adrenaline to pump into me.
I smiled dangerously at her even as I tasted the tang of my own blood on the water. “I know exactly where I am—and it doesn’t fucking matter.” My own power infiltrated my words as my cat roared inside of me, hungry for a kill. His need to bathe in blood was strong.
True to her cowardly nature, Kira pasted a flirtatious smile upon her face, giggling once more. “Poor shifter, let's not quarrel. Solaire would just hate to see it and she is waiting for us. We wouldn’t want anything to happen to her, all alone. She has been through enough tragedy, has she not?”
I hissed at her, tightening my grip around her neck, and ignored the pain of Cyrus’ spear sinking deeper into my back. “This is a game you don’t want to play, Kira.” I warned her.
Sniffing, she spat. “Males are so dramatic. Stand down Cyrus, you fool.” Water pulsed around us and I hissed as the spear was violently yanked from my body before the water rushed forcefully between us, releasing my grip around Kira’s throat, and slamming me straight into the guard at my back. “Heal the shifter. I don’t want him bleeding out before his time.” She glared at us both before swimming away.
“Yes, my queen.” Cyrus murmured stiffly, shoving me away from him.
Burning pain lit up my insides as water burrowed roughly inside my wound and I clenched my teeth to prevent the snarl that threatened to escape me.
“Thank you.” I said seconds later, when the pain subsided, and blood no longer tinged the water. “For what it is worth, I never wanted that to happen.”
“Fuck off, shifter. Touch my queen again and I won’t hesitate to run you through next time.” He spat and jerked his head to the side. “Get moving.”
“You deserved that, fairy boy.”
I shook my head regrettably. “But he didn’t, cat. The poor bastard thinks that’s how he should be treated. This whole city has succumbed to her sickening influence.”
“We can’t save everyone.”
Sighing, I swam towards Kira. Her pink braids and rainbow fluorescent body art like a gaudy light in the water. “She is up to something, if we can just figure it out, perhaps we can. But if not, all that matters is Remnant gets out of here alive, even if that means the destruction of the entire water fae race.”
“We are in agreement, fairy boy.”Snarled the beast.
Chapter 18
Ihissedatthegrowingstench of death permeating the pristine waters around us. Even in this beautiful white sandy clearing, with the moonlight shining down on the colorful water fae, it festered below the surface.
I scented Remnant before I saw her. She was the only one that the stench didn’t cling to like a second skin. I followed the scent of pure and potent lilies in a midnight rain to her stunning silhouette.
There was no comparison to her in the crowd.
As if the goddess agreed, a moonbeam shone brightly down upon her like a spotlight, the star's reflections glittering in the water around her, highlighting the delicate green art someone had tastefully painted on her black scales. Heavy teardrop emeralds hung from her thick blue black hair and down the middle of her forehead. She was striking, even with her brow furrowed slightly as she watched the festivities.
“Solaire!” Kira called out to her.
When Remnant turned, the worried expression instantly replaced with joy for herfriendswimming towards her.
If anyone ever doubted how she survived the queen’s court within the capital, they would need to look no further than this moment. She was a mirage. Remarkably convincing in her role to play.
