Read Online Winning the Legend by B. Kristin McMichael - Free Book Online

legend
as Randolph’s right-hand man for the past five years. It was only
last month that the majority of them found out Devin was only a day
human. Now they wanted to see firsthand how a day human would
compete with their night human prodigies.
    After supper, Arianna joined Devin and
Gabriel in the library to go over clan business. While the other
clan heads gathered around their own computers to get business
done, they all kept a close eye on Arianna. She quickly regretted
agreeing to them all sharing a room, they were going to be a
distraction.
    ‘Seeger has been insisting
Michael be sent here to watch over everything, and report back to
the council,’ Devin said mentally to
Arianna, as he scanned more papers and pointed to the email up on
his computer screen.
    ‘And to try to sabotage
everyone else?’ Arianna replied. Seeger
would not be sending his son here to just watch. That had never
been Seeger’s style. Michael Seeger would an even worse distraction
than the competitors.
    ‘I figured that much as
well.’ Devin looked up to her. “Yes or
no?” The men around the room looked over to Arianna and Devin. Most
of the men brought their retainers to help settle business, but
none of the retainers spoke out loud to their Lords.
    “No, of course not. I don’t need to babysit
Michael for him.” Arianna took the computer from him and typed back
her own reply.
    While Lord Seeger had been much more
agreeable now that she might be married off to another clan, he was
still not her friend in all of this. She figured his plan was to
kill her rather than let another clan claim her. Maybe he would go
for disowning her as not being a true dearg-dul if she married
someone else. His possibilities were endless, since he was just as
ruthless as her grandfather had been, and even more power
hungry.
    Devin went back to reading through the daily
mail. Arianna added her opinion every now and then, but mainly let
him do his job. He had been slowly training her on everything, but
it bored her enough that she was easily distracted. She wasn’t the
only one in the room that was bored. A bored Rhys was doing his
best to distract her with funny faces, while his retainer took care
of everything for him. He seemed as unneeded as Arianna was.
Arianna wandered over to the window to watch the early morning sun
as Gabriel was now in conference with Devin over joint issues.
    “Not up for politics much?” Rhys asked,
leaning against the windowsill so that his back was to the outside
and his face to Arianna. This was the first time she was without
Andrew, and that seemed to be ideal for every man in the room who
were all thinking the same thing. Rhys was just the first to act,
and now no one else had a shot.
    “Not really,” Arianna replied, looking
outside and not at the sidhe night human before her. It wasn’t that
he wasn’t nice to look at. He was younger than many of the
competitors, and closer to her age than the dragur Lars, but her
heart would always belong to Andrew. Now it was like she didn’t
even notice anyone else. “You either?”
    “Nah, he takes care of most of it.” Rhys
nodded to his retainer, who didn’t even notice them talking.
    “Where’s your mate?” Rhys asked, glancing
around the room.
    Startled, Arianna looked up at Rhys. He
wasn’t looking at her now, but outside, as she had been. He was as
perfect as Arianna imaged a fairy to be. His skin was flawless. A
bit pale, but not deathly white. His head was topped with the same
corn-colored, blond hair as her own. In fact, even his eyes were
the same color blue as hers. Somehow Rhys looked like he was her
brother more than some man contending for her hand in marriage.
    “My what?” Arianna asked, trying to be sure
she heard him correctly.
    “Oh, are we not supposed to know?” Rhys
asked. He talked now in more hushed tones as the look on her face
told him he was correct. “I can tell that the man following you all
the time, the dark-haired one, is your mate.