The room was filled with loud chatter as we all anxiously waited for the meal to be served. My people were laughing, smiling, and just having an all-around good time, conversing amongst each other. As I looked out over the crowd, I realized that my followers were very diversified. Our home was now full of vampires, lycanthropes, fae, merrows, Coomera’s, witches, and so much more. We even had a few leprechauns. One person in particular, a woman, caught my attention. By her beauty alone I knew that she was a merrow and for whatever reason, I had to make it a point to meet her.I caught the sight of a Guardian at the entrance. The bundle he had in his arms immediately stole my attention away from the woman I had been concentrating on. I made a move to stand and the whole room quieted. All eyes were now on me. Well, hell. I hate it when they do that. Determined to ignore the new attention I began to walk the length of the room toward the man

I didn’t want to leave the bed. I wanted to stay where we were and spend the whole night proving to Liam just how important he was to me, but we had other matters to attend to. Besides, he’s smiling and acting like himself again.“Chase is fetching Madeline for us. He’s going to take her to the sitting room.”We are both worried about the young woman under our care. She looks sickly and her visible skin is made up of mostly bruises and scars.“I feel for her. She has been beaten badly. I can almost guarantee that those bruises on her arms extend to the rest of her body.”His mouth was set in a straight line. Liam was very passionate about men who beat on women. It took him a long time to feel comfortable enough to train with me without holding back.“It’s just one more thing to make him pay for when we catch him,” he stated as we entered the sitting room.Madeline sat perched on the

I was greeted with the sight of Jax holding the beaten form of Seamus Curtis and Guinivere struggling to hold his brother Ronald. She looked like she could use the help, so I shaped and pushed my magic out to bind the man, leaving him suspended and immobile. Guin gave me a curt nod and backed herself to the corner of the room. Jax must have broken the news to her because I didn’t get so much as a smile from her. Holding Ronald Curtis in place I turned my eyes to Seamus. Even in his captured state he stared out at me through eyes full of disdain and contempt. I was everything he hated, and it was obvious as I stand here in front of everyone with my fangs pronounced and my wings showing huge and bright at my back.“What have you done to my wife, you vile, you worthless, abomination against nature?”I couldn’t stop it from happening. My laughter echoed throughout the massive hall.“As if you care about Madeline. You beat her and left h

Damon would be here any minute now. Rebecca prepared a beautiful lunch for us and if I stood a chance of making it downstairs in time, I needed to get Liam and Chase to release me from the bed that we had damn near broken. all night last night and into this morning.“Guys seriously, we need to get up. We have things to do and people to see.”“The only thing we wanna do is you.” That soft and sensual voice belonged to Chase. His hand was slowly making its way up to the center of my thighs. “Just a few more minutes?” he pleaded.I cast a look over my shoulder to Liam hoping to find some help there but instead all I had gotten was another set of eyes pleading with me to stay in the bed.“I can’t guys. I promised to meet Damon and Rebecca cooked, but if you two don’t want to come then you can stay here and occupy each other.”That look just then spoke a thousand words. The idea was appealing t

My men and I didn’t stay long after the crowning. Nothing happened in regard to the rebels but we didn’t feel comfortable with pressing our luck with Treasa there. If someone were to try to attack us again, Treasa would most definitely try to protect us again and we’re not ready for her powers to be public knowledge yet. That is if the full events of the Pre-Ascension dinner didn’t get released into the Rumor Mill.“Chase can you assemble the designated leaders for each governing, so we can have our meeting?” I asked while smiling down at the wiggling baby in my arms.“Sure thing. Where do you want them?”“Just have them meet us in the conference room.”With a quick nod of his head he disappeared into the ballroom and I turned to Jax, “Would you mind taking Miss Princess here upstairs? We will meet you up there afterwards.”Jax leaned down to take Treasa from me and headed stra