A Kingdom of Night

Chapter 3 - Feyre

I pealed my blood-soaked clothes off my body and ran a warm bath, climbing in with a low moan. Rhys walked in soon after and dumped a load of shampoo onto his hands before slowly massaging my scalp.

"Are you ok Feyre?" Rhys kept his hands in a steady rhythm, working the blood and dirt out of my hair.

"I want to know where she came from."

"So do I, can I look into your mind, see what you saw?"

I opened a slither of my shield for him, and he watched the whole event.

"You declared yourself High Lady."

I bit my lip "Was I not supposed to?"

"Feyre, I've wanted to shout it out across the whole of Velaris from the moment the priestess appointed you, it's just typical that you upended my spectacular plans."

He removed his hands from my head, and I turned.

"I'm pretty sure if you went and perched on the roof and crowed it out now you would get all the credit."

He pulled me closer and kissed me deeply, I sighed at the taste of him.

"let's finish washing you then see what everyone has been doing."

I snorted "I'm betting Amren is trying her hardest not to eat Lucien, Mor and Az are trying to keep the peace and Cass is silently egging her on."

"Is it wrong to hope that Mor and Az fail."

"As he pretty much single handily helped me keep my sanity while I was with Tamlin, yes."

"Damn, an angry Amren is always hard to please."

The set me off into fits of laughter, I didn't even realise that Rhys had finished rinsing off my hair until he was lifting me out of the tub.

He examined every inch of my body as he dried me off then watched with predatory focus as I brushed then plaited my hair. I stood and he took my hand, leading me to the wardrobe.

I was tempted to forget everything that was going on and push him to the floor, riding him until we were both screaming but I pushed my need down and let him pick out a stunning dress, it was Night Court black and once I slid into it I knew it made me look like the High Lady I now was, powerful, regal and dominant.

I watched at Rhys's eyes glazed over while he scanned my body. A small smile tugged on my lips but before I could say anything an ear-splitting scream cut through the house.