“How long will that take?” I asked.
“Could take months,” Safir said.
Oh, hell no. I couldn’t abandon everything here for months! Though… what I was abandoning was learning about this world and my powers, and Icoulddo that elsewhere, perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad.
Still, what about my friends here? I didn’t have many, but I had Tala and Professor Rheoran and Zora… It would be nice to be able to connect with a woman every now and then. The sausage-fest currently surrounding me was nice at times — especially the sexy times — but notall the time.
“However,” Safir continued. “If you are as much your mother’s daughter as I suspect, then you may learn quite quickly, with a good tutor.”
I grimaced. “Yeah, but where are we going to find an elf to teach me?” Finding a nymph wasn’t a problem, but elves…?
“Not all elves are evil,” Safir said. At the same time Koar spoke over him,
“I may have some friends in the capital who could help.”
The two glared at each other.
The hatred and distrust between those two alphas was going to be a problem.
“As for your nymph side, your grandmother would be your best resource,” Safir said, turning back to me.
I spun from the mirror.
“Grandmother? I have a relative? Alivingrelative? Why didn’t you say so sooner?”
“I was getting to it, but you asked about your parents first.”
I had.
“Your grandmother has been bankrolling this whole operation,” Safir added. “She’s… quite wealthy.”
A rich grandmother. Okay things were starting to look up.
“Well, I guess that’s one thing I have going for me,” I muttered.
“And you have friends, people who care about you and want to help you,” Myel added stepping over to slip his hand into mine, instantly soothing.
“Lots of friends,” Vyns added with a smile.
“New friends,” Koar added, once again getting down on one knee. “I cannot apologize enough for all the horrible things I did to you. I feel… disgusted with what I did in Saldrea’s name. I seek only to serve the crown and now that I know you are the true princess, I will serve you with everything I have and everything I am. I know you will be a far better ruler than Saldrea could ever have been. I dedicate myself to you: body, mind, and soul.”
Wow.
“And I accept any and all punishment you wish to give me for my past transgressions,” he added.
Punishment?
An image flashed in my mind of me in a black leather catsuit with Koar naked, on his knees, bound and begging to serve me, pleasure me, please me, his towering erection… wasnotwhat I should be thinking about right now!
I breathed out slowly as that vision faded.
“He’s a good man,” Vyns whispered. “I trust him.”
He’d misunderstood my hesitation.
“Ah… yeah… well, we’ll see about all of that. No punishment yet, okay, so… get up.”
Koar did.
