A different man stated, “Done.”
I slurred, “Fuck you very much.”
My captor clicked his tongue twice, and a slap of leather was heard. “Get moving, you ugly beasts.”
“We should ask for better horses next time,” the second kidnapper grouched. “These are almost dead.”
“She gave what she could.”
I swallowed hard while my body bounced on the wooden cart. Hoofbeats filled the night air. I was being carted away to a mad queen.
Ireallydid not like S’Kir very much.
Chapter Eight
KIMBER
“Where is she?!”
I’d never actually heard anyone yell loud enough to shake the walls, but Belshazzar did. In one of the few temple buildings still standing, he made the windows shake in their frames.
Not that I blamed him.
He was terrified that something had happened to her. And he waspissed the fuck off.
“We have soldiers everywhere looking for the queen, sire,” Drez said.
“I’ve got word out to Lord Knight Kane on the other side of the Scar,” Odom said.
He marched up to Odom. “You think that’s enough? She was taken from under your nose! I want everyone in this godforsaken place looking for her!”
“We can’t,” Staviz said. “We are fighting a war. We’ve spared all we can to look for her.”
The king grabbed his shirt and pulled him close. “It’s not enough. We need to find her!”
“Put him down, Bel,” Dorian commanded, stepping forward. “This is not your army, and you can’t rule here by threat.”
I was impressed that Staviz didn’t react to King Belshazzar’s hostility.
The king released Staviz in the next moment and turned his anger on Dorian. “And whose fault is that?”
“Whose fault is what?” I snapped. “That this isn’t your army? Your Majesty, it wasn’t your army, even if you were the king of the vampires of East S’Kir. This is the druid army.”
He stalked over to me. “What gives you the right to talk to me that way, child?”
I stared him dead in the eyes. “You’re not scaring me, King Belshazzar. You’re confusing anger with fear.”
“Don’t presume—”
“Your woman is missing,” I hissed. “What good does it do you to stand here and argue with your brother and our generals?”
“They need to send more out to find her!”
“Do they?” I asked.
Odom was next to me. “Think about it. Savion was mad with power. Niniane is just mad. If she heard there was a vampire queen here, what do you think she would do?”
“Kill her!”
