Zodiac Academy 6: Fated Throne

Mildred practically dragged me through the palace until we made it to a suite in the guest wing that I guessed Father had given to her.

She unlocked the door and I frowned as she tugged me through magical wards and a silencing bubble until we stepped into an enormous white and blue suite laid out with a massive bed in the centre of it which was covered in red rose petals.

‘I’ve got a surprise for you,’ she breathed in what I was guessing was maybe meant to be a seductive voice, but it came out more like a snake hissing as spittle flew between the gaps in her teeth and I cringed.

‘Maybe we should just get this over with,’ I grunted, not having any desire to do that at all, but I still had no fucking way to get out of this.

Unless…maybe I could just bend her over and force her ugly face down into the pillows so she couldn’t see what I was doing. Then I could create a magical illusion of a cock to fuck her with and she’d never even know we hadn’t really done it. 

That wouldn’t help me with the Heirs issue, but I didn’t want her having my fucking kid anyway. And maybe if I could just buy a bit of time, we could get Roxy away from my father somehow.

It wasn’t much of a plan but it sure beat sticking my dick in her.

Mildred grabbed my hand and tried to drag me across the room, but I growled at her and used my strength to whirl her around and toss her down on the bed instead.

She bounced with the force I used and her eyes widened as I stalked after her, my jaw gritted with determination.

‘Wait – I haven’t shown you the surprise!’ she gasped, her voice sounding even more masculine than usual, but I needed to get this done, not engage in conversation with her or indulge her with fucking surprises.

‘Stay quiet,’ I growled, grabbing her waist and flipping her face down before lifting her hips up to point her flat ass at me. 

I shuddered as I used water magic to create ice so that her arms were frozen to the headboard and the angle I stretched them at forced her face into the pillows like I’d planned.

I flipped up the massive skirt she was wearing as I tried not to give too much thought to what I was about to find beneath all these layers of fabric.

At least I’m not really fucking her. I repeated those words over and over in my head as I hunted through the fabric for her panties. My hand suddenly ran over a bulge between her legs and I reared away in alarm.

“Woah, hold the fuck on – you’re a guy?” I balked, but it actually did make a lot of sense now I thought about it. “Is this your fucking surprise?” Holy shit, maybe this is my way out. I can’t impregnant a man.

Her big ass foot suddenly slammed into my chest and knocked me flying back against the table beyond the foot of the bed.

‘What the fuck?’ I roared at her, my temper fraying as she melted the ice restraints off of her arms and rolled over.

But instead of finding Mildred there, I found fucking Gabriel, grinning at me like some crazy asshole as he removed the illusion spells he’d put in place to make himself look like Mildred.

‘Hey, husband,’ he teased, gripping the front of the wedding dress and ripping it right down the front so that he could climb out of it. ‘Were you really about to fuck me without even telling me you loved me?’

‘What…how…I just married you!’

‘Not quite,’ he disagreed. ‘I’m already married more than enough, though it’s sweet you thought it was a possibility.’ He waved his wedding ring at me and I just stared in confusion as my brain tried to catch up to my eyes.

‘I don’t understand,’ I growled, trying to figure this out, was I not married? Holy fucking shit, was that possible?

Gabriel rolled his eyes and got to his feet, kicking off the stilettos and crossing the room in his boxers with his tattoos all on display. My gaze caught on a Dragon which curved over his shoulder blade and looked suspiciously like me.

‘I saw what was going to happen today and this is the only chance we had to stop it. And seeing as you vowed to marry Mildred in ‘clarity and honesty’ but I was really just a disguised dude in a dress, those vows don’t mean shit. Didn’t you notice the lack of magic binding you after you made them?’ he asked, pulling open a drawer and tugging a pair of jeans and a black sweater on.

‘I guess I was more focused on being forced to marry that beast while the girl I really love had to watch,’ I growled, but even though I felt seriously pissed, his words were slowly sinking in. ‘Wait, so…I’m not really married?’

‘Nope. And as fantastic as I’m sure you are in bed, I’ve got some pretty strict rules about not getting fucked by a Dragon, so I had to stop you,’ he joked. 

‘How the fuck did you pull this off?’ I demanded, a grin spreading over my features as I realised he’d just saved me from a fate I couldn’t escape. Though I still had no idea how the hell I was supposed to get away with it long term.

‘Well, if you’d let me show you the surprise instead of groping my dick then you’d know.’ Gabriel strode across the room, swiping the brown lipstick from his mouth with the back of his hand and I made a mental note to kick his ass for committing to the role so damn much at some point. But right now I could forget that disgusting kiss in the face of my gratitude and curiosity.

He moved to the closet door and tugged it open, stepping aside with a huge grin on his face as he revealed Mildred hog tied in the bottom of it with magic restricting cuffs glowing blue around her wrists. She was grunting and cursing around a ball gag in her mouth and I burst out laughing as she glared at me with her little round eyes.

‘I arrived here in the early hours and with the help of a friend of mine, we managed to convince her to remove the protections in place to stop anyone from impersonating her. Luckily he happened to have these ropes and the cuffs and the gag…and I promised to buy him replacements because clearly he won’t want those back now. Anyway, I’m just going to give her a memory potion so she forgets all this shit and then we need to go,’ Gabriel said, dropping down to unclasp the ball gag before forcing a little bottle of potion into Mildred’s mouth.

She fought and squealed like a pig as she thrashed against her restraints and I sniggered as Gabriel used his water magic to force the potion down her throat. Her eyes went glassy as it took effect, and he snapped the ball gag back into place before closing the door on her and turning to face me again.

“You wanna tell me why you decided to kiss me and grab my fucking dick while I believed you were her?” I asked, unable to shake the feeling of Mildred’s moustache grazing across my lips from my memory even though I now knew it had been him in disguise.

Gabriel smirked, stepping forward to look me right in the eyes and I was surprised to find he matched my height because there weren’t many men who did.

“You remember when my little sister came back from the mortal realm and you made her life a living hell?” he asked me in a low growl, darkness shifting in his gaze. “Remember how you burned all of her clothes off and made the whole kingdom think she was a sex addict and almost drowned her in that fucking swimming pool?”

“You were punishing me?” I asked, my brows rising at the smug look on his face.

“It was the least you deserved, don’t you agree?” Gabriel slapped my cheek a couple of times and I jerked back with a growl but he just held his ground, seeming to be so certain that I would agree with him that he wasn’t afraid of me lashing out. And maybe he was fucking right about that.

“Alight. I get it. I fucked up and you’re not gonna let me forget it,” I muttered and he nodded.

‘We have more important things to discuss than that though.”

“What?” I asked, sensing the shift in his tone and he frowned.

“When I finally got back to my family’s winter cabin last night, I went to my amplifying chamber and managed to see a whole hell of a lot of things that my time in the Royal Seer’s Chair opened up to me. And there was one prophesy which I can’t see any way around but this.’

‘But what?’ I asked in concern, frowning at him as he stepped closer to me with his brow furrowing. 

‘One of my sisters is going to die today. And the only possible chance we have to save them is by me bringing you to the caves of the forgotten.’

‘The what of where?’ I demanded, my heart racing at the idea of Roxy or Darcy not making it through the day as I tried to figure out what the fuck was going to happen that could mean they might not.

‘It’s an ancient set of caverns in the far south of Solaria, hidden within a jungle and long since forgotten by our kind. My visions led me there once before and I found a ring which saved my life. The stars won’t show me what will happen when we get there or anything at all other than to whisper that it is the only chance there is for both Vega Princesses to survive the day. So are you with me?’ he asked urgently and I could see how serious he was about this as I nodded.

‘You’re sure the best thing I can do for Roxy is to go with you now?’ I demanded. ‘And how is Darcy involved in this?’

‘Your father captured her and Lance last night. I was so lost in the visions the stars had flooded me with that I didn’t see him coming for them until after it had already come to pass. I’m more sorry for that than words can express. I called the other Heirs and told them what’s happening. But if you and I don’t head to the caves now then I know that one of my sisters will die.’

“Why?” I balked, stepping forward and grabbing his shirt as I tugged him closer to me. “How? Where? Let’s just go and get them now and-”

“No,” Gabriel snapped, shoving me off of him and making my panic turn to anger. “I told you, we need to go to the caves if we want to save them. It’s the only chance we have. If you let your hot head get the better of you and try charging off to rescue them then you’ll bring their deaths about. I want you to come with me willingly, but if I have to beat the shit out of you and drag you there hog tied like Mildred then I will. Because I’m not gonna let anything happen to them. So are you with me or not?”

I glared at him for a long moment as those words sank in and I forced out a hard breath as I accepted them. I might have wanted to run to Roxy, but if I could have ripped her out of my father’s arms then I would have done it already. Gabriel was by far the best Seer I’d ever met and though he kinda irritated me a lot of the time, I did trust him, especially when it came to the Vegas.

‘Alright,’ I agreed firmly, knowing enough about his visions to trust that he really did know what he was talking about with this. ‘Let’s go.’

Gabriel nodded firmly before moving to a bookcase set against the wall and using the ring Roxy had made for him to open the King’s Passages there.

I stepped into the dark behind him, putting all of my faith into him as I left Roxy behind and followed him out of the palace. But if this was what it took to save her or Darcy then I’d do it. Whatever it took.