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    When I
opened my eyes the first thing I saw was Valerian’s face. I inhaled
a sharp breath and tried to scuttle away from him. I couldn’t. I
was strapped to a bed where iron manacles clamped down my wrists
and ankles. My magic didn’t work against that metal. I thrashed.
“Let me go, asshole!”
    Prince
Valerian sat at the edge of the bed, shaking his head. He looked
exactly as the last time I’d seen him: cold. Arrogant. And
inhumanly pretty. His silky river of platinum hair swayed as he
leaned down. “I see you’ve forgotten your manners while living
among the humans for so long.”
    “ I see you’re still the same fucking dick.”
    “ Princess Aine,” Valerian chastised me. “Such harsh language. A
maiden like you shouldn’t curse. It’s improper.”
    “ Fuck you. Where’s Jaime?”
    His light
eyebrow arched slightly. “That human?”
    “ If you lay as much as a finger at him, I swear…”
    “ You swear what?” Valerian taunted. A wicked smile curled at
the corner of his lips. “You’ll kill me?”
    I opened
and closed my mouth. He knew it was a big bluff. I couldn’t kill
Valerian, even if I really wanted to. He was the most powerful fae
in the realm. He didn’t usurp the Court of Light’s throne and gain
a massive following by handing out candies and gift
baskets.
    I sniffed
petulantly. “I won’t let you have me.”
    “ Oh?” Valerian looked amused. “How do you propose that? It
seems to me you’re lying ripe for the taking whenever I
desire.”
    “ Rapist!”
    “ I am no such thing. I’ll take what’s meant to be mine. You,
Princess Aine, are my betrothed, after all. Any claim I have over
you is just.”
    I spun my
mind for a second. “I can make your life miserable. I’ll stop
taking showers. I’ll vomit all over you. I can bite your dick off
when you’re sleeping. Trust me, I have plenty of nifty ideas to
make your life a living hell.”
    His eyes
rounded. The amusement doubled. “This is what you learned after
seven years on the run?”
    “ I’ve learned many things.”
    “ Including taking a human lover?” Valerian narrowed his eyes.
“I can smell him on you. How disgraceful.”
    “ You stabbed your own father in the back. I think we know which
one of us is disgraceful.”
    The
amusement evaporated. His eyes flashed dangerously. I flinched. I
felt his raw power sweeping over me, causing the hair on my body to
stand up and goose bumps to break all over my flesh. Maybe I should
rein back my tongue a bit. I’d heard rumors that Valerian could
flay a man clean of his skin simply with a flick of a
finger.
    Valerian
rose with the grace of a swan. He wore a simple white shirt with
dark sage-colored trousers. Huntsman’s boots covered his feet. No
knives. No weapons. Heavens knew he could wreak havoc without a
single blade. “Suppose I don’t torture this human of yours. What
would I get in return?”
    “ I’ll be a good girl.”
    “ Oh?”
    “ I’ll do whatever you want me to do. But you must send Jaime
back to the human world.”
    “ And lose my leverage over you? I think not.”
    I
scowled.
    Valerian
waved his hands and the iron manacles that held my limbs clicked
open. I quickly wrenched out my arms and pulled my legs from the
contraptions. I rubbed my wrists. The pure iron made my skin break
out in a rash.
    “ We will wed tomorrow at noon. Everything has been arranged. I
expect you’ll be pleasant…” My scowl deepened. “…during the
procession and our wedding night. If you don’t hold your end of the
bargain,” Valerian made a fluttery gesture, “your human lover will
suffer dire consequences.”
    My blood
ran cold. Besides killing, I heard Valerian loved devising deathly
contraptions and torturing his victims in unspeakably horrid ways.
If Jigsaw Killer were real, those two would be BFF, Best Friends
Forever. I swallowed. “I want to see Jaime.”
    “ Unthinkable. You’re my bride.”
    “ How do I know you haven’t already killed