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“Our win.” I nodded when he glanced at me. “We did this. There was no healing if I had to torture her. I couldn’t heal her and bear the pain. We did this.” I leaned in and kissed his cheek. “I’m sorry that I’ll be the one to get the credit for it only.”

“You’re also the one that gets shit on alone too often, so it’s just balancing the scales.”

He was always fair like that and I was grateful.

What I wasn’t grateful for? My dad never showed up. It was our class time and he just didn’t show… After how he talked to me before.

He hadn’t even contacted me since.

That wasn’t fair, and—I was mature and said I needed a bit to think. He didn’t even reply. Fine, he rarely responded to texts and simply showed up, but this wasn’t okay.

“It worked,” I told the girl who was pacing in the hallway. I chuckled when she hugged me, waving back my security. I leaned down and pressed my lips to her ear. “You call me when you want me to heal you too, honey. You did nothing wrong to carry around the scars you have. I’ll make them go away when you’re ready.”

“Thank you, Princess,” she rasped.

People were curious when we relinquished control of the facility back to them, but really were just relieved.

Mostly.

“We will—” one of the asshole councilmen started to say.

I lashed out with my magic and made him kneel, shocking everyone there. “You need to learn your place, asshole. You can’t even fight me. You can’t evenaccessyour magic to try and start fighting me if I don’tallow it.” I met his enraged gaze with my own. “I will humiliate you like this every time you eventhinkto treat me like your pet fairy.

“Or whatever bullshit your tiny, tiny brain keeps thinking of. I’m not youranything. You won’t call on the leader of a fuckingplanetfor anything. You are not remotely important enough for that. You’re not even the head of your council. So seriously, get your shit together because next my dogs will mark you for insulting me.”

“Oh, I bet they will for this,” Shael chuckled darkly. She dipped her head to Anya. “We will speak if you find any such cases as I’m sure you’ll start inquiring about. For now, the gods were clear that the healing can work onchildren. That is who the leader of our people will consider using her power on when there is a list who need it after ourwar.”

“I appreciate it, Commander, and I will make sure no one else insults the future Queen of Faerie. Not any of my species at least,” Anya said firmly.

I was glad when several of the council members there gave the asshole a hard look. Enough was enough. Seriously.

He was truly going to tell me he’d call me—like me directly—when they needed me to heal people going forward.

Obviously, the fucker was losing his mind.

We got food for Neldor and then promised he was going to take the day to do easy paperwork and refuel. I was glad he would actually be distracted and headed to class.

“Good luck for whatever you’re up to, and may the gods bless your path,” Professor Sontar said when class was over, clearly knowing I was distracted.

I didn’t bother trying to brush it off and met his gaze. “There will be one less threat to our people tomorrow. I think the gods will be all for that.”

“Yes, I would think so. Congratulations on your upcoming victory.”

I smiled. I liked that and how much faith he had in me.

Yeah, I might steal that. It had a nice ring to it for sure.

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“Did you finally figure out you could do this now, or were you just leaving me to be tortured before you killed me?” Mario asked after I teleported him to me.

It hadn’t taken long to get everything set up with barriers and traps in place. The only sticking point had been where to do it. Morgan wanted somewhere open so there wasn’t as much risk of anyone or anything else being hurt. Iolas agreed with him.

Shael and I wanted somewhere enclosed so there were less options for his possible escape.

And Onas saw both sides.

So we ended up going a bit cliché and picked one of my warehouses. It was dead during lunch, and I told the security to take a hike for an hour. They were fine with it when they saw all the extra Guardians and commanders.

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