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Nayden shifted his head like he was stretching the side of his neck before he nodded and looked away.

I let it go, pulled out my Palm and text commed Gayle to see how she was doing.

It took a while to get her text back where she shared she was okay.

I didn’t believe her, so I told her I’d be at Spikeback that night to get the full story.

All I got to that was a listless (yes, even through text) See you then.

Hmm.

It wasn’t until an hour and a half later, when Nayden deposited me in my flat and was walking into the lift that he addressed our earlier topic.

“You can care about him. You can make him happy,” he said while standing in the lift. “And both of those are good. But they don’t mean you’ll provide him with a good queen.”

For some reason, especially considering I had no desire to be queen, I was wildly insulted by that.

I had no chance to share this with him.

The doors to the lift closed.

And he was gone.

Chapter 15

Stands

I was sitting cross-legged in the center of my bed, the room dark, the lights of the city the only illumination.

And I was deep in my thoughts.

It was a week and a day after the first Wednesday I spent the night at Berg Castle with Tanyn.

Gayle was still at Spikeback. She’d resumed her daily routine, just going home from work to a castle.

And I was spot-on about her text. Listless was the only way to describe her.

She was getting on with it, but how she was doing it, she was still breaking all of our hearts.

Also on that, we could say Cormac was enraged Gayle had been rescued.

Fortunately, Tanyn, Aleksei and Bainon were correct. Cormac’s father, King Niall, made a stink about it, but he didn’t push it too far.

The worst part about that was Cormac had no communication with Gayle about any of this after she was rescued. It was all done directly—with Cormac comming the males and sharing a piece of his mind—and through reps—with them blustering about foreign invasions committed by allies, saying Cormac’s was justified, he was seeing to his mate, and theirs was not.

Nevertheless, the diplomats managed to battle this out behind the scenes, and that had gone quiet.

But the hits kept hitting Gayle, since Sirk showed at Spikeback the Friday after she returned for some private time with her.

Time he used to break up with her.

Although I could see his reasoning, his timing pissed me off. She was barely home two days before he put an end to them.

Sure, if he intended to seek his mate, the end was always an eventuality, but the male could have given her a few more days to deal before he lowered that boom.

As such, I was pissed at Sirk.

Thus, I got his sequence from Laura and shared that in a text.