Page 38 of House of Mages and Raven

Nay,I countered.

What could she do? She wouldn’t risk shifting to wrestle control from me in front of the chaos prince. I wouldn’t mind letting the cat out of the bag, but Barbie wasn’t ready to let the world see me.

I was her dirty little secret, though she’d promised that one day I wouldn’t be and I would have my own life.

I slid off the bed, swaying my hips and staring brazenly at the chaos prince.

“Barbie sent me,” I said sultrily, thrusting my chest out, but it was wasted on the prince, since he didn’t even bother to check out my impressive double-D cups.

He was a downer, unlike my sugar Rowan. Obviously, the heir of the House of Chaos liked his women hunched and slouching, which was Barbie’s signature pose. I had to constantly remind her to keep her tits up.

The prince’s eyes darkened in suspicion and displeasure as they darted between the jewels and me.

“To fetch her sparkles,” I said, gesturing at the jewels scattered beside the shoebox on the bed. “She said, I quote, ‘No honey, no money.’ She no longer has honey men, so she needs money to get honey men.” I ignored the rumbling sound from the chest of the chaos prince and continued to rile him up. “To level up and catch another man’s interest, Barbie needs money, like for fixing her messy golden curls.”

“Her curls are fine,” said the prince. “And she doesn’t need any man’s attention!”

“There’s no agree to disagree here. There’s only disagree on that,” I countered. “Her curls bounce too much, like boobs, don’t you think?”

I’d given him a hint, yet he was still too dense to check out my spectacular breasts.

“The other princes all want to fuck her,” I said. “She needs to wear these jewels?—”

The chaos prince took an aggressive step toward me, his face stormy, his fists clenched, and his power formidable. “What the fuck did you say?”

Get out of here!Barbie screamed at me.

Chill, chick,I snapped back before meeting the prince’s glare to show him that he didn’t scare me. “Duh, I don’t know why the truth is getting your pants all twisted up. Barbie is a bride candidate, so her ultimate goal, like everyone else’s, is to land a mate, preferably one of the heirs, since they’re all rich and powerful. You’re taken, aren’t you? But Barbie still has the freedom to choose anyone, including the four smoking-hot, sexy-as-fuck princes.” I flashed a smirk at him. “To be honest with you, I’ve been fucking Prince Rowan, but I wouldn’t mind sharing him with my bestie Barbie. You’ve had a threesome with the demon queen and her ward. Barbie is curious about a threesome with Rowan and me.”

The chaos prince’s power hurled toward me before he could leash it. He’d lost his shit at hearing Barbie wanted a threesome. With a curse, he grasped his power to yank it back, but I’d lunged toward his darkness and lightning, letting it slam into the center of my chest.

“No!” the chaos prince said, his face paling as he waited for my corpse to crumple to the floor.

He wasn’t as ruthless as others said.

I stood tall, smirking at him. His lightning and darkness vanished harmlessly within me. Actually, I got a boost, as Barbiefed on them like a cocktail. Once upon a time, the chaos prince’s power could trap her. Now it no longer wanted to do that, as it recognized her, though its owner was too dense to know Barbie was lurking within me, taking his lightning and darkness into the reserves of her greedy well. If he knew that we were the world’s most formidable eaters…

His eyes widened slightly in shock. “There is only one person my power won’t hurt,” he said harshly. “It should be impossible for you to take such a hit, unless Barbie loaned her power to you. And that must be why the house let you in. No one, except Barbie and me, can enter her room without the house’s permission.”

A dark light glinted in my eyes as Barbie edged to the thin surface and peeked out keenly. The heir had just unwisely admitted that his power could harm even his betrothed and Barbie’s copy. He sniffed again and nodded his confirmation. Of course he could smell Barbie, yet I wasn’t her.

“Why didn’t she come in person?” he demanded again, and I swore I could see worry and longing for her in his eyes. “This is still her room. My house will never deny her access.”

“Why would she want to come back after you kicked her out?” I retorted.

“Is that what she thinks?” he barked, but he was barking at the wrong tree.

“What else should she think, Your Highness?” I asked.

“She never mentioned you,” he said.

“Aren’t your cocky?” I said with a shrug. “You think Barbie tells you everything?”

Both Barbie and the chaos prince bristled, which annoyed me. These two probably deserved each other due to their lousy personalities.

“What else hasn’t Barbie told me?” the chaos prince purred in his rich, deep voice, and I shuddered, feeling some kind ofthrill and pleasant sensation rushing along my spine until Barbie kicked me in the jaw.

Don’t worry, B,I said.He might be a prince charming, but I’m not dumb enough to offer him free intel. He’ll have to pay for it with a diamond, like my Rowan did.

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