Chapter 38. Day Two (If I’m the Devil, He’s Worse) (2)

“Let me be clear Dean. If Diane or Ethan or anyone from this household come to any harm because of you, if you reach for the crown, if you even think about it, I will make you my enemy for life. I won’t stop until you’re dead.”

The brothers were staring each other down. Their eyes were the mirror of each other’s, dark death in them, as Dean ripped his brother’s hand from his throat.

“She doesn’t have it in her to be the queen Warlanda needs!” Dean spat out, holding onto his throat and breathing hard. “Not without help, a steady hand to guide her. Not with Ethan as her king! I came, little brother, to see our future queen home.”

“Then you came, Dean, to be disappointed. She’s never going anywhere with you.”

Troy walked towards the doors that they’d come through only a moment ago. Before he opened them and walked through he said, “Go home, before I make you.”

When Troy burst through the doors, CC’s eyes immediately went to him. He walked right up to her a