ARTEMISIA

"Hello, Queenie."

Laurent smirked as I ran into him in the hallway.

I rolled my eyes at the sarcasm in his voice. It was his usual way of referring to me. At least it was better than him staring at me like I had fallen off from somewhere and tagging me Sin's Queen rather than my given name.

He had said I was too inexperienced to be a queen to him. When he said inexperienced, he meant, I wouldn't be able to handle the supernatural world as time went on. That ...