Reeva

“I’d really prefer you not come along,” Axel tells me. I can see the hesitation in his eyes, along with the thread of the mate bond that ties us together. And I can also tell that he wishes he could word that opinion in a much stronger way.

“I’d prefer none of this was happening at all,” I counter. “I came here to study, and you came here to teach. I really wish we lived in a world where we could just do that and not have to worry about a bunch of guys plotting to take over the kingdom. But they are. And we’re talking about my sister...