Lady for Embers (Lady of Darkness #4)

Chapter 11

Scarlett

S carlett stood on the main deck of their ship, Sorin and Cassius at her sides. Rayner, Sawyer, Eliza, and Neve were guarding the children and the Baylorin royals. Briar and Auberon were on Briar’s main ship, along with a few other warriors from Briar’s Court. They’d strategically placed the rest of their small forces on the supply ships. They’d had to be crafty with their maneuvers, not sure where exactly the seraphs Lord Tyndell had mentioned were at on the ships. Maybe they didn’t truly have them stationed on every ship. Maybe the Lord had been bluf?ng. It was entirely possible, but they had to treat his words as the threat they were intended to be.

Cyrus had stayed on their ship with them, standing at Cassius’s side, and Azrael was here too. Mainly because Scarlett didn’t trust the Earth Prince not to try to return to his queen’s side by whatever means necessary. She’d been contemplating how to handle the prince this last week. If she was going to bring him into Avonleya with them, she had to be certain he wouldn’t try to pass information back to Talwyn. She had to be sure he was on their side. Time and again she kept coming back to the Blood Bond, but she couldn’t bring herself to demand that of him.