章 226: For the Queen

AARYN

Aaryn stood watching his mate stalk towards the cave, her mother on her heels. He knew Reth had taken the wrong impression from all that, and now he was going to have to answer for it. But in that moment, all he cared about was that Elreth looked so tense, so brittle.

Was it fear? Or anger? Or both?

Probably both.

As soon as they disappeared into the cave and the door swung closed, Reth turned to him and rumbled, "What the hell did you do?"

"That's not what's wrong now," he said.

Reth lifted a single eyebrow. "So you did do something?"