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Dragon Mated (Supernatural Prison #3)(5)
Author: Jaymin Eve

It took us quite a few moments to pass through the beautiful room. The king continued to regale me with the most boring tales ever about how he won that piece of art in a spelling contest or something equally lame, or how that large mahogany duchess was acquired in his years as a knight. Dude was so old he made Louis look like a toddler.

Finally, we crossed into the next room, a large dining room. Off to the side I could see and scent the kitchen. Goddammit, I was starving.

I rationalized it in my head for a moment … really, there was no point denying myself food. I would only be weakened, and I needed to fight.

Plus, I was really effing hungry.

“I’m going to leave you here in the sunroom,” Larky said as he pushed open a set of double doors. My wolf eyes were quick to catalogue the cozy little nook, with its large windows and scattered couches. “The glass is magically reinforced. You can’t break out of it. Someone will be with you shortly. There’s a small bathroom just through there.”

He dropped me down, gently, before moving like a shot to the open door. I lowered myself and snarled at him, showing every fang in my mouth. I would never accept this situation. I would continue to fight him until one of us was dead.

His genial tone cracked a little as he gave me one last glance. “Don’t attack my … maid. I will be unhappy if she’s injured.”

What the crap? He cares about his maid?

He swept from the room, the doorway closing behind him. Just like in the bedroom upstairs, there was no handle or lock on this side. I pulled on the wolf energy, calling it back into myself, shifting into human.

Rising from a crouch, I ran toward the glassed windows, wrenching up the couch which was closest to me and flinging it with all my strength. The noise was deafening, but little happened besides it bouncing off the glass and rebounding back toward me.

Motherfucker! He hadn’t been kidding about that magically reinforced glass. I was starting to freak out. What if I never escaped from here? Shit, no way. That just wasn’t even an option.

Through the window I could see miles of green grass, flowers, hedges, and landscaped gardens. It was beautiful, but with that sheen of fakeness; everything was just too perfect. Magic. My wolf senses usually detected magic with ease, but Faerie world was so doused with it I was on overload, numb to the energy.

The door clicked behind me and I spun, crouching down again, hands aloft. Larky was crazy if he thought I wouldn’t use his maid to get out of here. This was the first weakness I’d seen in him and I was taking full advantage.

As the door widened even further, I stalked myself closer. A waif of a girl wearing a simple cotton shift dress slipped in around the corner and the door closed behind her.

She held up both hands in front of her. “I can’t reopen the door. They have it locked down with magic. He’s always one step ahead of us. I’m sorry.”

Truth.

Her low, sweet voice halted me momentarily, my claws retracting slightly as I examined her. She was totally not what I had expected, and while I didn’t want to fall for some I’m-weak-and-innocent trick, I could sense nothing truly untoward about her. Still, she might be Larky’s wolf in disguise.

Neither of us moved for a few moments, and I tried to figure out why she was so important to the dragon king. Her long, light brown hair hung in shiny strands along her face, which was small and elfin, pretty but unforgettable. She had brown eyes and a petite nose. Her skin was the most defining thing about her. It was a rich, creamy cocoa color, like she was a blend of more than one nationality, although I was pretty sure she was fey, or half at least, and in that case she could be from anywhere.

“Who are you?” I took another step closer, lowering my arms. “What do you know of old Larky?”

Those dull brown eyes met mine, and as she registered the hostility vibrating from me she flinched. Great, she worked for one of the scariest bastards in existence and she was afraid of me.

“Who the hell are you?” I demanded again, more venom this time, and I took another step closer. I realized that she was actually a little taller than my five feet four, but she was so waif -like that she seemed smaller.

“I’m … I’m as he said, the maid, and, uh … his wife.”

I blinked once. And then twice. What the what? Did she just say wife?

Chapter 2

There was nothing I hated more than disloyal men. Sure, the Compasses were as free and easy as any male, with a revolving door of ladies through their beds, but if they ever committed to anyone, that would be it, there would be no others. That was what true honor for a man was, and Larky was neither true nor honorable. In the short time I’d known him I’d found out about his wife, his chosen mate – Lemon and Orange’s mother – and me, whatever the hell I was supposed to be. Did this dick really think he could have a whole menagerie of women stashed around and that was all okay?

Fey wife was still staring at me, and I really had to ask her: “Why? Seriously … what the hell were you thinking? You could do a lot better than a weird, dead-for-a-thousand-years megalomaniac.”

She lowered her gaze before it shot back up again; her eyes flashed as if she had only just realized I was naked. She went all wide-eyed with a sort of deer-in-the-headlights shock on her face. There was something very odd here. She was sweet, innocent, not the sort of plaything I expected Larky would keep around.

“Tell me how you came to be Larkspur’s wife.” “Wife” was such a human word to use.

She cleared her throat. “My parents sold me to him when I was fourteen and one year. There was this dragon terrorizing our village, in France. Master saved us, and in return I was promised to him when I turned sixteen.”

   
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