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Oh well, I thought it might be a good time to give you all a little snippet from one of the chapters I am working on when I take a break from Penelope and Odysseus (NOT the next chapter, bear in mind).

I will patiently wait for you all to come with pitchfork and torches after me for writing a Xaden POV where he is less than stellar now.

“You hurt him enough.” Quinn adds, her hand hovering over the handle of her labrys when I glare at her. “He doesn't need you barging in there right now – that would only make you feel better, not him.”

“Don't talk about things you know nothing about, Artan. This is none of your business.” I snap at her, trying to ignore the nagging tightening feeling inside of my stomach at her words. She doesn’t know what she is talking about – Bodhi needs me, whenever he was in pain, he always needed me.

“When was the last time something like that happened?” Sgaeyl's voice breaks through the cracks in my mind shield. “He hasn't sought comfort in you in a long time.”

“That is only because Imogen got between us. She inserted herself in his life and stole my role. But that ends today.” I argue, trying to at least convince my dragon that I am the wronged one here. That I am right.

To her credit, Quinn doesn't even blink at my outburst. However, she squares her shoulders and her upper lip pulls into an angry snarl. “No, Riorson! You are the one who has no fucking clue what he is talking about here! I am sick of you barging in as if you are entitled to everyone following your every command!” She yells back and I am taken aback for a second. I don't think I have ever heard easy-going, bubbly Quinn Artan scream at someone. Let alone at me. “You came to Basgiath every other week, yet not once did I see you so much as ask Bodhi how he is feeling or how his arm was healing! Not once! But what I did hear was you ordering him around on each and every one of your visits and complaining whenever he didn't meet your crazy high expectations! You were pushing him beyond the reasonable limit with the weapon runs, berating him whenever one of the marked ones still in the Quadrant was falling behind… and as if that was not enough, you made him responsible for Sorrengail’s ass too! You have been running him into the ground and biting his head off for every slight mistake, but that poor idiot never once complained or disobeyed you! All of that while he was in agonizing pain and had other responsibilities and problems on top of it all!”

“I didn't know that his arm was not healing properly.” At this point I am aware that I probably sound like a broken record, but it's the truth. Had I known he was in so much pain, I wouldn't have been so harsh with him when something didn't go according to plan. I am not a monster, I care about my cousin! “Had they told me –”

“Had they told you, you would have done what, Xaden?!” Garrick shouts, his face contorted with anger. “Stop fucking hiding behind that excuse! They shouldn't have said anything for you to notice if you truly gave a shit! But unless it concerned Sorrengail, you couldn't be bothered! I thought you learned your lesson after you almost got Imogen killed last year… after Liam fucking died! But no, when it comes to her, everything and everyone ceases to exist and no price is too high!” 

“Watch it, Tavis!” Brennan growls, peeling himself off the wall, but before he can take more than a step towards us, Garrick hurls a dagger towards him, manipulating its trajectory so it lands into the wall right by the mender’s ear. 

“No, you watch it, Sorrengail! I am sick and tired of your family fucking up mine!” Garrick explodes, but he doesn’t take his eyes off of me as he rips into Brennan. “I am not going to blame your sister for all this, but I am going to blame you two for the decisions you take in her name, effectively fucking all of us over! I am done putting up with your fucking preferential treatment, gods only know no one is going to keep any of us in a glass bubble like you try to do with her!”

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