Page 70 of Their World

“Let’s go, I’ll talk to them,” I said and headed towards the entrance.

“Do you think that’s wise?” Piper asked.

“Talking to them?” I asked with a scowl over my shoulder.

She nodded and asked, “Can they even talk?”

Right, it wasn’t public knowledge that I was part demon yet, not to mention all of the things we now knew.

“Can I trust them?” I asked Trey and Kayden.

They both nodded.

“We are your guards,” Piper said. “You can trust us to keep everything we hear or see confidential.”

I turned around to face them and said, “This may be hard to accept, I’ve barely accepted it, but … I am part demon.”

All three of their eyes widened.

“I’m the Demon Princess, actually. Apparently, my parents took me out of the demon world to raise me here. I am a hybrid of not just our races, but the demon race as well. So, please do not interfere when I try to talk to the demons.”

They all nodded, dumbstruck. I don’t think I’d ever seen Piper speechless before.

“Should we assign one of them specifically to her?” Kayden asked Trey. “Since she’s the one who gets into trouble the most?”

I glared at him. “Rude, but we all know Piper is my assigned guard, so stop teasing her.” Without waiting for them to discuss it more, I turned and finished the walk inside.

It was weird to come into the stadium when no one was there. It was so large and silent, super eerie compared to the warmth I felt when surrounded by cheering fans for games.

In the center of the field, a portal swirled silently. Standing just before it were two bull-headed demons, and just beyond them paced a familiar, floppy-eared female.

“Talrinir!” I called out and ran to her.

She grabbed my hands and inspected me. “You’re okay?”

I scowled. “Yes, why would you think that I wasn’t okay?”

Her eyes darted to the six men and one woman behind me and widened. She took a step back, but I gripped her hands. “It’s okay. These are my guards and my mates. You don’t have to fear them.”

The bull-headed demons turned to face them and pulled out axes from their hips.

“Stand down,” I ordered them and stepped before the bull-headed demons.

“Lily,” Mason growled.

“We aren’t your enemies,” I told the bull-headed demons. “If you don’t attack us, they won’t attack you. Understood?”

They looked at each other, stepped back, and put their axes back in the loops on their belts.

“Talrinir, what are you doing here?” I asked, turning back to her now that I’d defused the males.

“Druth was taken by the Grand Advisor a week ago. He accused her of treason and we haven’t seen her since. Then, this morning, the Grand Advisor and King Jolmach announced we would be invading this world in a week’s time because you were taken hostage and we needed to rescue you.”

“Rescue me?” I asked. “What sense does that make? Last time I spoke to Jol, the Grand Advisor had convinced him I was his enemy.”

She shook her head. “I don’t know what’s happening, but the Grand Advisor’s powers have … changed. He isn’t able to manipulate people’s minds as easily and so he has to make the lies more believable. Everyone saw that King Jolmach andZoman and Dhun care for you, so he couldn’t convince us all that you were the enemy.”

So, he made my family out to be the enemy instead.

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