Day Five of the Royal Visit
Dante had been locked in the dungeon for nearly three days, and Jo was starting to lose her mind.
She didn’t understand it. He was a stranger. A royal general. A man she barely knew. And yet, her stomach churned with anxiety at the thought of his trial. She could still picture the way he stepped forward without hesitation, how his voice had thundered across the training ground. He hadn’t just protected the fairies—he’d made a statement.
Leo’s death didn’t haunt her. It satisfied her. That brute Gamma had harmed too many innocents for too long.
But now Jo had more than Dante to worry about.
Mina and Daya had confessed they weren’t just wandering fairies. They were escapees—runaways from the Fairy Realm, captured by Dark Slayer warriors before they could cros
