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"You demanded my presence, Queen Addiena?"

The queen didn’t even look up from her book "Is it so hard for you to call me Mother?"

Actuallyyes it was "You de, the queen laid down her book and looked at her oldest daughter "How I do love that sneer"

Rhiannon, First Born of the Dragon Queen, First Born Daughter, White Dragonwitch, and heir to the queen’s throne, sat back on her haunches She brushed her long white hair out of her eyes and stared at her red-haired and red-scaled s to do"

"Really? Like what?"

Da to do; she just didn’t want to be here Rhiannon and herNever learned to tolerate each other There was even a story passed a the queen’s court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her hter But Rhiannon didn’t believe that for one second True, she believed she bit her mother, but she didn’t believe her mother had tried to cuddle her

"What I have to do is ?"

"Fine" Her mother moved forward a bit and Rhiannon’s entire body tensed at her approach, especially as she watched the queen’s guard follow "I’ve made a decision"

Rhiannon’s eyes narrowed "About?"

"You It’s time for you to be mated To be Claimed And I’ve chosen your mate One of h, Rhiannon stared at her eful? And that low-born lizard is your choice of one erously in the lowlit chamber "He’s the one I’ve chosen He’s the one who shall Claihter died in the face of her on only stared at her, Rhiannon exploded "You callous, deceitful bitch!"

Her eful A Battle Lord of her erous, enerally unpleasant

In all the years she’d known him, she’d never seen him smile to anyoneexcept her And it was only once Constantly he watched her, ignoring the rules of rank, until finally she told hi on a spit or she’d rip the horns from his head He’d only smiled at her For the first and only time, he’d sood sign