? I don’t want to go back to what I was.”“I don't blame you, but I’m afraid I can't answer that question for you.”“No that's okay. I under...tand that.”“You were getting on well with David earlier.”“Yes I was, but not yet had sex with him! I will get back to you later,” We both laughed.We could still hear Helene and David fucking, so we thought we would go again. This time it was more leisurely and loving. Just after I came in Carolyn again, there was a tap on the door, and Helene appeared.“Are. "My father sent me here to be his pawn," she said. "This, I shall never be. I was a Princess of Wessex, now I shall be a Queen of Mercia. Hereward, you have always been a good friend but you are my father's man, for good or ill. Tell him, then, that I shall do my duty." Hereward bowed and made his farewells. It was a sadly puzzled man that rode away.Æthelflaed had been raised in the Court of a King at war. For as long as she could remember, her father and his House Ceorls had been on the. I looked at him without removing my head from his shoulder, smiled and nuzzled his neck.Dad said, "Megan, you look wonderful tonight."I thanked him and told him how much it meant to be appreciated. I gently kissed his cheek, with my eyes closed, but as I moved back to his shoulder, I opened my eyes to see him staring directly into my face, searching for an answer to my behavior.That's when things began to change. Dad quietly said, "Megan, it would be a shame for all this to go to waste, may I. Pain twitched her cheeks and set her jaw. Yes, Duke Gallchobhar had hurt her. Done something terrible to her family. Killed her father? Definitely usurped her family's land. So that made her a duke's daughter. A noble faerie.Her wings fluttered. Then purple energy flickered around the edges. I saw faint glimmers streaming from her hands towards the lodestone. A nimbus flickered around the stone. An aura just perceptible to my sight.Zanyia's ears flicked. “Master!”“What?” I asked, scratching.