Zezi had left Lady Delice's room with a contrary plan in mind though. The more she walked towards her room, the more doubt set in, and grew deep roots into her thinking.What if the King doesn't die?The White Circle was so sure about their mission, they were not seeing the other possiblity.They all seemed so sure that the poison would kill him but what if it doesn't?Valerick's strenght was one that couldn't be rivalled with and for someone that had seized so many souls, how sure were they that they could easily take him down by having him ingest the content of a bottle. Up till this morning, nothing out of his action has suggested that he had been affected by that vile liquid in anyway. So, what if it had no effect on him and he discovers her betrayal along the way and takes it out on her people, like he had done to her family before.He would punish her too, that was if she would make it out alive.Or not. She wasn't sure.Ah, by the moon!She had to be selfless. She had a dau
Valerick must have felt her shock, his eyes widened slightly, and his hold around her tightened. "Is everything okay?"Zezi blinked, her hands falling from his waist.Damn whatever spark that was spiraling under her skin, couldn't it get the message that she was in trouble right now?"I just don't like the fact that you are always in my business." She grumbled, trying to block the bond from her end while trying to find lies to cover this up. It wasn't easy, at all. Fated mate and its perks.Ah!"What?""We will go through it together then. Let him in, let's read it together and we will find out the big secret that I am hiding. Since I already told you that I'm fine but you won't just take your Mate's word for it." Zezi said in a whisper, trying as much as possible to ensure that Iriysi would not hear them.That was a useless thing though, if Iriysi was a pure-blood like her brother and an old vampire too, her hearing would be very good. Her gaze flew across the study where Irysi w
The silver cut through her flesh and she bit back a hiss, the pain that went through her was lessened by the mate bond she shared with the King, much more lessened than she had thought it would be.The image of the documents that she had found stuck to her medical report flashed in her mind and she set the automatic ninja shooters again, before going in front of it to fight its attacks.She defended herself against each strike, moving out of the way with speed and turning just in time to miss the sharp speeding blade, but her mind got distracted again and one slashed right through her arms, past her cloth, and deep into her flesh.She hissed this time, pulling it out of her skin and falling down in pain. It was a good thing that no one was here to witness this. An audience would have been terrible.The image stayed right in front of her eyes and her lower lip trembled at the words she had read on them.She was never supposed to see that, Valerick had been hiding it from her but she h
The walls had ears and Zezi had listened through the fours of the training room. "I think our King should mate with Lady Iriysi, she is a PureBlood and not a pest or a dog."One of the castle's servants had said. It was a group of people a good distance away from the training room, but now that Valerick's mark was on her, this very heightened hearing was one of the "perks" that came with it. "Lady Delice, I prefer." Another had chipped in."Or put all your concerns to your business, how about that? I heard you still haven't found your mate yet, that should be enough to occupy your mind, do you not think so?" A voice she knew all too well, snapped. A slight chuckle and another voice rose to the occasion to continue what they started. "Don't be like this Gwen, you know how it is.""No, I do not."Zezi wondered where Gwen had found all the people shipping her with the King, so far so good, she had been able to confirm that she wasn't widely liked by the vampires. She didn't care."
It had been futile to fight against Valerick and soon enough, the dress had been gotten rid of.No, ripped. He had ripped it off her, then led her to the sofa when she complained breathlessly that the table was too hard a surface to lay upon. His tongue collided against her skin, and electricity sizzled in her veins, as he pressed her into the sofa to steal her pain away, replacing it with something more demanding. The need that coursed through her veins wasn't just hers and the way it consumed her stole her words away. She couldn't tell if Valerick was intentionally leaving the bond between them open or if control was just slipping from him too. She wondered if he had been feeding, wondered if he had been getting enough rest, he didn't look much like himself, so she wondered if---"Ah," a sound vibrated through her chest, and slipped past her lips, when she felt his tongue flicked over her nipple.With an involuntary shiver, she realized that she had no cuts there. By the Moon,
"The King is back."That had been about over thirty minutes ago, when Gwen had brought the news to her with absolute excitement. Now, Zezi stood in front of a hefty guard who wouldn't let her go into the room to see him. A gun would have been good right now, just so she could shoot a bullet right through his head."Get out of my way." She snarled. "That is an order!" But the guard stood rigidly at the door, looking straight ahead like he couldn't see her. Like she wasn't even there.Zezi gritted her teeth, as the running around of physicians in the room, slipped into her ears, their chaotic mutterings and Valerick's groans of pain tugging at the strings of her heart. From his side of the bond, she could feel nothing. Guilt dug a grave in her mind, and regret laid in it. Buried, deep, deep down. Her breathing was ragged with the conflict that tussled her around without mercy. Wasn't this what she wanted? Why was she not content with it? She should be happy. She was saving her
The Volakys - the former King's creations, his undead army made out of blood magic, the terror of the Dark Times. These creatures were to the vampires, as the vampires were to the werewolves. That was what the book Zezi had read some months ago had told her about the Dark Times. She imagined that they were even worse.Tension settled in the room, fear consumed the air. "Who told you that?" Laura was the first to snap. Zezi frowned, rage flooding into her veins. "Is it true, Princess? Is this something your White Circle has been dabbling in and keeping a secret from the rest of us?""Don't be ridiculous, pest!" Laura slammed her hands over the table that stood between them. "No one wants to go back to the Dark Times. Why would you even think that we would bring back the Volakys? They were a terror to us."Zezi arched her an eyebrow.They were fools if they thought they could play her around. Bigger fools if they thought she wouldn't notice. Or maybe she was the biggest fool right
Zezi moved a finger, consciousness rushing back into her veins. It didn't feel like she was in the water anymore, didn't feel like she was drowning anymore.Instead, she felt the softness of the sheet beneath her and the smell of the first rain rushing into her lungs as she greedily inhaled. Her eyelids flickered open at that moment, Valerick's hazy outline which was illuminated by the golden light of the room, was all she could see. His hair fell over his face as he hovered over her.Another blink and she could see him clearly. He was alive, he was fine - that was if the familiar webbed lines that tattooed his neck were to be ignored, his peaking fangs and the dangerous look in his black eyes."Don't do that again," his cold voice warned, slicing through the silence, and the sound of clacking irons filled her ears as he moved away.Zezi panicked, and in a quick movement, she made him switch positions with her, trapping him with her thighs, observing at that moment the bundle of chai