HECTOR BAYES

“What did you just say?” I wheezed, my heart hammering wildly between the cages of my rib as heat rushed to my head and ears.

“Y-your highness, I- they saw her, being carted away, over the north of the forest,” Gordon murmured in a mousey voice, and I felt my eyes grow until they were the size of fucking beach balls in my sockets.

Japhtar had Nola? How did that happen? Saints! Why didn’t the imp ever listen to me? The irritation building inside me grew until it blotted out everything else as I clenched my fists until they shook lightly beside me.

Taking my woman was the...