“Jaco,” Mira muttered. “Command your beast to stand down.”
He didn’t say anything. He just continued glaring at me with that smug look. I could see the glint in his eyes. He wanted to humiliate me in front of his people. My subjects. To him I was just an outsider not fit to be queen. And it was clear from their whispers that they wanted a Vaelrythian queen.
We stared at each other for a while, my heart beating out of my chest from both fear and anger.
Then the flapping sound started again as the dragon suddenly took to the sky. I didn’t look. I was too afraid to look. I knew that there were only three possible outcomes today. I get him buried alive or he kills me. Or he humiliates me even further and we all get out of here. Either way, I was f****d. Because if he killed me, then I’ll ju
