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“We aren’t friends”

Kermilla blinked and looked taken aback

“Lady Cassidy, it’s a pleasure to see you again,” Jhorma said

“Since you were never pleased to see me, a lie dipped in honey is still a lie,” Cassidy snapped

Hell’s fire Who was this bitch who had taken control of her tongue?

Cassie? Cassie! Gray wants to knoe don’t like this Queen Vae paused Ranon wants to know too

“Oh,” Ker one of the kindred”

Vae snarled, and the Craft-enhanced sound ruh the room

The men tensed Kermilla’s smile wobbled

The thought of locking Kerh hues of Cassidy’s tees for her to hold on to civility

“Corant you a few minutes of my time, and you can say what you came to sayPrivately ” Cassidy turned and looked at Ranon to e

He didn’t like itHated her being in a rooave her a curt nod to indicate he would stand aside Then he focused on the four men who had coer Ifanything rong, those four men were forfeit The Warlord Princes in Dena Nehele had survived the twisted Queens who had ruled here, and they had survived two years of war against the landens They wouldn’t hesitate to tear her former court apart

They ht attack anyway if they realized those menwere from her former court Warlord Princes were possessive and territorial, and no one had been prepared for this visit

“Kermilla, with me,” Cassidy snapped as she turned and walked to the door

“May I remind you that I outrank you?” Kermilla snapped back

“May I remindyou that you don’t addressour Queen in that tone of voice if you want to keep your tongue?” Ranon snarled “And if rank is the pissing contest you want to have, then you may outrank her butI outrankyou ”

Ranon,Cassidy said, putting as much steel in her voice as she could

Those dark eyes blazed with fury He wasn’t backing down

I don’t like her, so please let me hear her out and be done with this, she told him

You don’t need to waste another minute on her

He’ll kill her,Cassidy thought, shocked by the truth It was one thing tothink about standing aside and letting him rip into these people; it was quite another to let hi bitchy and upset