Chapter 7 #3
“No. I have to do this on my own. You go to your brother’s home, and I’ll be right here.
Waiting on her to make her next move.” He asked if he thought that she’d try to hurt her.
“I don’t know, but I don’t think so. She’s very weak right now and not doing anything but lying there.
This is the way that Helen went. Just sort of closed down until there was nothing left of her.
I’m going to stay with her until the end so that if she wants to say something to me, she can.
In my heart, she can hurt me, but in my mind, I’m over her trying to make me feel bad for something that I don’t understand at all. ”
He left her there, as much as he didn’t want to, he knew that she was right.
He’d just be sitting around, and he could have been at home with his family.
It was breaking his heart that he couldn’t do more for her and her sister, but since he didn’t know how to help with this, he was going to leave it up to Serenity.
His heart broke for the two of them, and he wasn’t sure what he could do anyway.
Going home, he decided to make sure that there was food in the house for when she returned.
There were all kinds of things that she could eat, and he was glad that he’d suggested it to the cook.
She said she’d make sure there was plenty of juice as well.
Serenity had been drinking a great deal of juice of late, and he knew it was because of her magic.
She might not know what she’d gotten from him, but he was sure it was there.
She’d been bringing things to herself for the last several days, and there was more than that.
He wasn’t sure that he wanted to go to Ace’s home and see the others.
They were a good group of people, and he loved them with all his heart.
But like Serenity, he wanted to be alone tonight, and there wasn’t anything going on there that he couldn’t have missed.
As he was lying down on the bed that Serenity had been sleeping in, he brought the pillow to his face.
It smelled like her. Not only that, but when he inhaled deeply, he could smell her dragon as well. He should have guessed she’d be a red dragon and wondered what Tucker would say when he told him. He knew that he’d be excited as well.
Kings had been selected to be the king of their kind when he’d first changed.
But his mother, the worst kind of bitch there ever was, had refused the faeries’ training him for the job.
So it was centuries that he should have been being trained, but no one did anything about it.
So when he met his mate, Skye, all the magic that was to come to him as king startled them both, and they’d been down in pain for a long time.
It turned out that Kings nor Skye wanted to be the king and queen of their kind.
It was a great deal of work and traveling, and they were only just getting to know one another.
Plus, with all the traveling meant that they’d have to have children on the go all the time, and that wouldn’t be good quality time for anyone.
The faeries were bad enough, having to hang around all the time.
He’d have to ask Lady Earth if he was going to get faeries at his home now that he had one. They were handy to have around, and he was looking forward to having them at his home. Just as he was getting up to go take a shower, one of them came to him from the hallway.
“Lord Sherman?” He said he was just plain Sherman.
“Nay, you nor your brother are plain anything. There is a castle that has been left to you as dependents from the Savage side of the family. It is for both you and your brother to live in it, should you like, or do with it as the others have done before you. Make it a showcase so that others, humans and shifters alike, can enjoy it for all time. It also brings in a great deal of money to the coffers so that you don’t have to worry about the upkeep on it. ”
“What does it look like now?” He was told that it was falling down because it had not had repairs done to it, but with the right magic, faerie magic, it would be back up to par in no time. “You mean it’s falling down around their ears.”
“Yes, my lord. It is reputed to have been a beautiful home at one time, but it has since fallen into disrepair. Even the grounds are something of an eyesore. With word from you and Lord Ace, we can have it put back in order so that if you were to live there, it would be the perfect setting for one such as yourself.” He asked about the magic that would be used.
“Oh, the faeries would love to do this for you, sir. It has been something that they’ve wanted to do for a very long time.
The longer it sits, the more faeries want to work on it.
I would say in just a week, they could have it in better shape than it’s ever been. ”
“Then you do that. I’m sure that Ace will agree.
And you said that it could become a place that will make money for its own repairs?
” He said that people would pay to go through the castle once again after it had been repaired.
“Then go ahead and do it. I’ll talk to Ace about it, and we’ll see about going to visit it once it’s finished. You said it would only take a week?”
“Yes, and that’s mostly the gardens. The estate at one time was known for its gardens.
There were beautiful flowers and other trees around it so that people would come from all over the world, all worlds, to just see what the faeries have done with the place.
” He nodded. This was something that he could get into.
The fixing up of his ancestral home. “I shall make sure that the Lady Earth knows of your plans as well. She will have to approve the flowers being there, but there will be no problem with that. She, too, has wanted the castle to be in wonderful shape as well.”
He decided to go to Ace’s house then. It made him feel useful now to know that he was going to be helpful in raising the home again.
As soon as it could be arranged, he was going to take Serenity there and perhaps have their honeymoon in the place.
It sounded like something that she’d enjoy knowing about, too.
He laughed when he realized that she’d be Lady Serenity and thought that she’s love that most of all.
Rubbing his hands together, he was almost too excited to drive to the house where everyone was.
He was going to have to ask the others if they had castles as well.
He would bet there were plenty of them going down the line of Savages.
Sherman was sure there was a special one for Kings and Skye.
He couldn’t wait to talk to them about it.