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    I quickly scanned the rest of the room. There weren’t any guards. Matias was confident in his magical abilities.
    The dark haired king sat up when we entered, looking decidedly bored. His blue eyes flickered when they passed over my face, and I felt my heart skip with nerves, but then his gaze passed on and I remembered he wouldn’t be able to see my face in the deep hood. He turned to the two women and spoke to them, too softly for me to hear. They both rose in graceful movements and left the room. I tried not stare. Their dresses were made of a clinging silk so thin I doubted even Grace would wear them.
    Grace smiled at the king, her eyes taking on a seductive look. I rolled my eyes at her dramatics and decided she probably wouldn’t mind thin silks after all. She was the only one excited to be here.
    Aaric finished speaking, kneeling silently. Matias walked past him to Grace, looking down at her. “A beautiful woman,” he remarked, lifting a hand to brush a blonde curl back behind Grace’s ear. I snuck a glance at her. Grace was positively beaming.
    Matias smiled at her before his gaze moved over to me.
    “Hello, Adaryn,” he said simply.
    So much for secrecy.
    Aaric moved faster than thought, pulling a long, wicked dagger from his boot, and lunged at the king.
    Matias whirled to face him and slammed the magic between them. Aaric staggered backward and regained his footing, circling the king.
    With an angry snarl, Matias launched a force of blinding white light, flinging Aaric through the air to crash into the far wall, his knife clattering to the ground a few paces from him.
    My heart clenched in fear, seeing Aaric lay there. Concentrating my magic, I shattered the wall of energy Matias had placed around himself. I leapt at the king with a summoned spear of enchantment. An identical spear appeared in the king’s hands. He swatted my efforts away with ease and disarmed me within a few moments. My spear shivered away into nothing when I lost contact with it.
    Matias grabbed me by the arm and threw me to the floor. “How could you?” he roared. I tried to summon the magic again, but Matias snatched the threads away from me, leaving me defenseless. “You betrayed me. After everything I did for you. The magic lessons I gave you!” Matias’ face was twisted in anger, his eyes like two polished pinpoints of blue steel. I skittered away from him like a crab, unwilling to turn my back on the livid magic wielder.
    “I betrayed you?” I exclaimed, incredulous. I didn’t dare look in Aaric’s direction, and desperately hoped he was still alive. The thought that he might be dead because of Matias filled me with rage. “You betrayed me, betrayed everyone, Matias.”
    I was backed up to the now closed door. The servant had fled from his post and was nowhere in sight.
    “Don’t try and make this about my subjects, Adaryn,” Matias growled. He started to walk toward me, and was promptly smacked upside the head with a black parasol.
    “Get your hands off her!” Grace shrieked, smacking him again. She had a wild light in her eyes and her face was flushed. “Get away, you idiot, you—” She pulled a small pouch from the front of her dress, fumbling at the drawstrings. “You’ll be sorry.”
    Matias picked her up with the magic and flung her against the wall. She crumpled beside Aaric.
    I stood quickly, calling the magic. I threw it at Matias who leapt of out the way. Magic pulsed from him as he faced me again, face grim.
    “I was going to marry you, Adaryn.” His voice was cold. “And this is how you repay me.”
    “Marry you?” I spat. “Where on earth did you get an idea like that? Besides,” I glared at him, “you didn’t tell me you had a harem, you wretch.”
    Matias tossed his head angrily, midnight hair falling around his face. “Why mention it? They are of no consequence, merely there to serve my needs. But you, you were different. You could wield magic, like me.”
    We were circling each