Page 51 of The Fae Queen's Harem

I raised a hand to stop them.

Jax’s lime-colored eyes flashed with evil delight. He spat again, “Dragon mongrel, you’ll never be my queen, just like your whore mother, who didn’t deserve to be the queen. She opened her legs for a filthy dragon and—”

Elvey moved, inhumanly fast, his hand closing over Jax’s throat to choke his words and lifted Jax’s body into the air.

“Let him go, please, Elvey,” I said, quiet authority in my voice.

Elvey turned to me with a raised eyebrow, then acquiesced and dropped Jax.

Before the guard could get up from the ground, my bonding magic lashed out on its own. My magic seized his sick mind and twisted.

“Love?” Elvey asked, a questioning look on his face. “Maybe we should take it easy?” His worry that I would violate the rules of the challenge radiated toward me.

“No worries, my king,” I said with a syrupy smile. “I didn’t shed blood. I was only playing with his mind a little.” Wasn’t that another nice loophole? “And I won’t kill him. At least, not yet.” My voice took on a menacing tone.

Jax grasped his head with his hands and collapsed on the ground. I didn’t offer him the gift of death, and he wouldn’t die easily. He was living in his own nightmares. His face twisted grotesquely, and his mouth opened to scream, but no sound could come out.

I could be just as cruel as my evil bitch of an aunt.

The other guards behind him all paled and stepped back, leaving the entrance unguarded.

Flashing a dark smile, Elvey threaded his fingers with mine, and we treaded through the garden.

Zembyr and Rosalinda guarded the entrance.

I paused at the archway as moans of pleasures from Tianna and flirty laughter from my former consorts hit my ear. I was so familiar with the sounds the lightning dragon, the ice dragon, and the fire dragon made. Sounds only I had ever elicited from their mouths. I froze, sharp shards of ice piercing into my heart and clogging my throat.

Clusters of plants and blossoms blocked my sight, but Tianna’s continuing moans of lust led me toward them. Elvey’s fingers tightened around mine, offering me comfort and strength, but for the first time, he failed.

I unraveled my fingers from Elvey’s and sprinted toward the sounds, as if I could stop something bad from happening, or reverse time to stop it from ever happening.

My heart pounded in icy box, my blood roaring in my ears as I raced until I saw what was in front of me.

White lilies floated on the pond and a pink lotus rose elegantly from the water. The air smelled of sweet blossoms.

Tianna lay half-naked on her stomach on a cushioned spa table at the head of the pond.

To my utter mortification, Iokul was using some sort of magic to massage her, caressing her everywhere, and making her moan. Even though he wasn’t really touching her, the magical massage was intimate enough.

I hadn’t known he had that kind of magic, since he had never applied it to me. I had only experienced it when Elvey was intimate with me, but Iokul couldn’t have Elvey’s magic.

My heart turned to ice, and before it fractured. I averted my eyes from tightly engaged Tianna and Iokul and flicked my gaze to my two other former mates, hoping they would do something sensible and stop Iokul.

They glanced at their ice dragon brother with envy.

Blaze and Rai stood on either side of the Fae/demon bitch, flirting with her and laughing. They praised her unmatchable beauty and confessed their affection and loyalty to her. As I listened on, something died inside me.

They pleaded with her to confide her innermost secret to them.

“The day you earn it, boys, you’ll know everything I know,” Tianna said with amusement between her moans as Iokul’s intimate magic fondled her pleasure spots.

“Haven’t we shown enough affection and loyalty?” Blaze asked, pouting. He acted like a pussy, and he’d never been a pussy before.

“You know how much we adore you and worship you,” Rai said. “We’re all devoted to you, as we’ve never been devoted to any other.”

I half-closed my eyes as searing pain stabbed my guts. My insides twisted up. I controlled myself, willing the bile pushing its way up into my throat to settle back in my stomach. They’d all said the same thing to me a few days ago. And now I’d been completely replaced. They only had eyes for the viper, my fatal enemy.

How had this happened?

---