CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE: EMMA ENDLESS I’d grown up hearing about the faerie Thrall. It was what was supposed to happen with Oberon and I. After we had s*x, after we were married. I would be forever tied to him. If our mating bond was strong enough, it could have happened beforehand. But I had never wanted Oberon. Never wanted to be Queen of Faerie. So, the Thrall had never taken place, not properly, and I hadn’t been Queen long enough to have the Thrall take place. But I could see it on Ben. There was no denying it. He looked like a man in love. A man that was in love with Clark Endless, King of Faerie. My adopted brother. I couldn’t even be mad about it, not truthfully. Something had happened between them that I couldn’t possibly understand. That only the two of them would understand. “W