I waved my hands in the air, now playing the part that he had originally. “No one should be flirting right now.”
Because, damn, I was even starting to eye Lord Belshazzar’s ass. My hormones were going into overdrive the longer I waited to get laid after my Rest. Two hundred years and my pussy hadn’t seen any action. I needed to have a cock rammed so far up my—
“Hey, do you guys feel that?” Adelie interrupted my daydream. She stood to her feet and gradually walked to the glass barrier. Her small hands pressed against the glass as she leaned forward. “It feels like…”
“Like a small earthquake.” Lord Xenon stepped up beside her. “I guess Lord Cato was correct. It is a legion of druids descending on our home.”
In a rush, we all plastered ourselves to the glass.
And waited.
I despised druids with a burning passion, but I was ready to get out of here.
As soon as they all came, we could leave this place.
The entire lot of us jolted on our feet when the door to the cavern jarred hard against its bolts.
“I’m thinking we don’t pick the idiot who doesn’t know how to turn a doorknob,” I muttered under my breath. “I mean, what kind of moron doesn’t understand how to work a door?”
Lord Pippin’s head tilted. “I don’t think that’s what is happening out there. Those vibrations aren’t typical for an earthquake. Perhaps a fight…”
I blinked. “You guys did call the stronghold and tell them we were going to have company, right?”
“They know,” he answered calmly. “They’re staying away from this section of the mountain.”
Suddenly, the black wooden door bowed in on its hinges.
Boom.
All of our eyes followed the door as it flew across the cavern, slamming into the bottom of the stage and scattering a chair in its wake.
“That’s one way to open a door,” Lord Xenon rumbled. “Can anyone see them yet?”
“Nope.” I shook my head. “That was definitely druid power, though.”
The ground of rock beneath our feet rumbled, and we steadied our legs.
“I wonder if we’ll be able to fit them all in here,” Lord Cato muttered in amusement. “They’ll all need to enter so they’ll stop fighting each other.”
I cleared my throat. “Please tell me the spell does disappear for them. I’m not going to have some aroused druid nipping at my heels for all of the Challenges, am I?”
Lord Otto snorted. “No, it’ll disappear as soon as we break the spell.”
“Maybe you should break the spell when they enter,” Adelie suggested. “Because that’s going to be a lot of testosterone aimed at my girl here.”
Lord Pippin hummed deep in his throat. “I actually think that is a good idea.”
“Agreed,” Lord Belshazzar stated. “We’ll end their need as soon as they enter.”
All air escaped my lungs in a mad rush as a man threw his body inside the door. His legs were still outside though, and two men each had ahold of one of his feet. All three were a bloody mess, their clothes in tatters. The man on the ground clawed at the stone, sparks of red and blue glistening on his fingers.
And I knew him. I knew all three of them.
But I especially knew the one inside.
A man who had broken my heart…
When I was much,muchyounger.
