Yvonne's POV

The liquid fire coursing within me had me concentrating with all my might to keep from exploding from the inside out. The eyes clouded back the brown they had been, but now they were alight with an unearthly glow, focused on Kieran as his expression toppled like a scroll left to decay for centuries.

“You thought you could leash a Shaman Queen?” I said, my voice resonating with an authority I had never enjoyed before. When I heard the words, I felt as though they reverberated within the very stones beneath our boots, an amplification of forces that I was only just starting to comprehend.

Kieran's eyes were...