Chapter 139: Secrets in the Pride

RETH

Anger curled in his chest like smoke rising off the flame of his rage when he caught sight of her. Everything in him clenched. He'd been sensing her presence like a gnat buzzing nearby, but he'd dismissed it, so certain she was nowhere near, he'd convinced himself she was merely on his mind.

Then he'd turned just in time to catch a flicker between the trees, behind a large, mossy boulder at the edge of the clearing, and caught sight of very familiar, wide, blue eyes staring back at him.

He'd almost roared.

It was a blessing that the soldiers were in the middle of an exercise, and his pause would be taken merely as a distraction. He turned back to the men and pretended to continue inspecting them. But the light was growing low and they'd be finishing at the end of this exercise. Lucky for him.