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Hell Fae Rule #3: Know Your Enemy Before Engaging.

Hell Fae Rule #13: Nothing Is What It Seems.

My eyes opened. Those rules were taught to me by my parents. Parents I’d never trusted. Parents I would never trust.

But my mates… I trusted them. Typhos, too.

And they lived under their own guidance, making their own choices and decisions as each moment presented itself.

Hell Fae Queen Rule #1,I thought.There Are No Rules.

I needed to stop thinking inside a box and consider all potential avenues in a problem.

Melek is immortal. A Virtuous Fae. He can’t die.

Except he was stabbed by an enchanted Virtuous Fae item. However, I had that magic inside me now, which meant I should be able to determine the spell’s intentions.

Closing my eyes once more, I focused deep inside myself and called on that strand of magic, evaluating it for any deadly properties. Yet all I found was creationism undertones. And a note of possession.

Like the pet spell,I recognized.Vivaxia simply enchanted the item to allow her to use it from afar. But it’s not deadly. It’s just… a very sharp pen.

One that had obliterated Melek’s heart with all that spinning.

My eyelashes fluttered as I refocused on his chest.He’ll survive.

I was sure of it.

Okay. Now what about…?I looked at Vita again and forced myself to breathe. It wasn’t easy, especially with my mates being blocked from my mind again, but if I’d learned anything from my new life here, it was how to properly focus.

Melek had said something about Vita. Something important.Vivaxia touched… and Vita.

“Were you talking about the quill?” I wondered out loud. “The quill… and Vita?”

He’d just finished telling me how the book had been in her room.

And Vita had shown me that scene, too.

There must have been something it—she—wanted me to see.

“What about now?” I asked as I walked toward her. “Anything useful now?”

But as I reached the text, I found simple, blank pages.

I arched a brow and bent to close the book. However, I jolted back as my finger was met with an icy touch.

What the fuck?I thought. “Why?—”

“Cami!” Az shouted from somewhere in the distance. “Where the fuck are you?!”

“I’m in here!” I yelled back, my heart kick-starting in my chest from both the panic in his voice and the chilled book on the table. “Vivaxia…” I trailed off, not sure how to finish my sentence. Nor did I want to yell my suspicions out loud. I might be in our private quarters, but I didn’t trust her not to be close by. Or to have one of her enchanted minions nearby, anyway.

Thus far, she hadn’t entered the realm. Typhos had said he would have felt it.

And I believed that.

She emitted power, just like he did.

I’dfeltthat energy around her. Experienced it in my own soul.Recognized it now,I thought, frowning.Why does it feel like she’s all over this room?