Nebet grips me by the chin. “Beast, you’re going nowhere but into the Scarlet Temple. An Alpha like you is not worthy of their own fated mate. Assassins and monsters don’t bond. At least then you will be the last vampire born with The Power. You will have the sharpest fangs, claws, and blade because you will have no family, Omega, nor love. Also, it is an ancient rule that those with The Power must wear gloves. You will likely go mad without touch. You are the one who will feel like they haveeaten burning poison. I am interested to see, once your ruts start, how long it is before you turn feral without an Omega or nest, and I am granted permission from your mother to put you down. For generations, the Scarlet Temple has taken it as our sacred duty to hunt down and execute monsters like you. Now, I have you leashed. Perhaps, we shall see if a captive monster is worth saving?”
She is blurred through my tears, but my eyes glow with rage.
I may be a captive, but I am still the monster of legend.
Nebet is interested to see how soon I turn feral…?
I already feel like I am feral.
For the moment, I must behave for my brother’s sake.
But I won’t obey.
I won’t kneel.
I haven’t promised to doanything.
On the spirits of my tortured ancestors and the beating of my heart, I swear that I will take my revenge.
Nebet has torn apart the Shadow Twins tonight. It may take me decades, but I will find a way to savage the cold throat of this kingdom and feast on its warm blood.
CHAPTER TWO
Aurum Baths, Draca Kingdom
Freya, Omega Shadow Wolf Shifter Queen
Twelve years later…
On the daythat I learn I am to be wed to my worst enemy, the monstrous Shadow Vampire King, the sunrise looks more beautiful and terrible than ever before.
Has Lanlin Sin already learned about this peace deal, which is sealed by the offer of my sacrifice, his fated Omega?
Oh, and by the sweet nectar blood of my soulmate, the fallen fae, King Daire?
Fuck that.
Nobody hurts an Omega’s pack or leashes a wild wolf.
Who said that every woman dreams of marrying a King?
Only assholes.
It shook me — devastated me to my soul — to discover the secret that I am not a servant but actually the true Omega Queen of Fang Kingdom. I’m still an orphan survivor, but some raven starving coward suppressed my magic and stole my identity.
Iwillfind a way to take back my throne.
I will honor my massacred royal parents.
When I die and fly to the moon to join them and my other ancestors, however, will they be disappointed in who I have become?
Will they even recognize their infant daughter?
Vampires savaged them and every other member of the Orm Court. I never knew them, but what would they think if they watched me being bonded to a vampire?
Their enemy?
Even if this whole plan by Aurelius, the Golden Dragon King and reincarnated tyrant Emperor Hadrian, is only a plot to capture and then destroy Lanlin.
