Chapter 17

"You're delirious," whispered Vraxlon, audible enough for the sound to echo in the room.

"I would very much like to say that I am," she said with extreme irony. "But no, prince of lust. I'm not delirious. I'm also innocent this time. I haven't been killing the queen, even though I wanted to, even though I said again that it would be very beneficial to my interests, I had nothing to do with all five deaths during her existence. And I also did not let any of my lesser demons be invoked with the rituals of the humans who used the book of shadows on earth. I prevented them from going up, because it was not interesting to me that the queen could be suspicious of any of my intentions until the time came. And, between us, you need to admit that it takes a lot of magic to be able to contain and reverse spells. And I think I've been demonstrating that I know how to do this with total excellence.

"You are a terrible creature, Kyra "rosnei, taking a step to be next to Vraxlon. "You