and screamed.
* * * *
Deep in the night, Liadan watched as Beck strode across the yard
and slammed the door to the barn. She smiled. It looked like there was
trouble in paradise already. She wasn’t surprised. The girl was human.
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The woman Beck had married might have everything necessary to be
a bondmate, but she hadn’t been trained.
Liadan thought of all the curses she could put on the little redhead.
It would give her great pleasure to watch as the King’s new bride’s
hair fell out or her skin withered and died on her body. It wouldn’t
take much. The human was ill-prepared for life on this plane. She
would likely have no defenses in place against a nicely crafted spell.
It was tempting, but there were ways to track a spell back to its
originator. Liadan had to be careful with her magic. She would have
killed Cian Finn years ago if she’d been able to truly use her skills
without fear of retribution.
It was incomprehensible that Beck had chosen that idiot human
over her. Liadan was beautiful. She had made sure of it when she
started this mission. She had chosen the perfect façade. Liadan
O’Neill was every inch the elegant Fae lady. It should have been
enough to ensure that the twins fell in love with her. It hadn’t
happened that way. It had taken a long time to get Beck to come to
her bed, and Cian avoided her altogether.
She wasn’t sure what was between the human and Beck. He
wasn’t sleeping with his new bride for some reason. He wouldn’t be
able to resist her for long. He had already broken off his relationship
with Liadan. Beck had wasted no time doing it, either. He’d knocked
on her door earlier that afternoon and refused to come in. He’d told