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I just wanted to make sure that death wasn’t Priel’s.
“I’ll run on my own,” I told both of them.
Clevv shifted, and I forced my gaze to remain steady despite the rapid pounding of my heart.
“Priel will take koveko or we’ll knock him unconscious ourselves, then,” Clevv growled at me.
Priel shifted back too, and I fought the urge to step behind him and let him protect me.
He couldn’t defend me in this moment; I needed to protect both of us.
“As long as no one touches my female, I’ll take the damn poison,” Priel said.
My eyes widened. “What?”
Clevv glared at Priel while answering my question. “Koveko is a bulbous plant with a liquid within it that renders its drinker unconscious for half of a day.” There was a tense pause. “And this female belongs to me, not you.”
Shit.
There was going to be carnage.
“Get the plant. Priel will drink it,” I said quickly
The man growled behind me, and I spun to face him. Our eyes locked.
I couldn’t say what I wanted to say.
That I needed him to play along until we could figure out a safe way to get ourselves, Mare, and Ervo out of the situation.
So instead I narrowed my eyes at him.
He liked it when I got sassy with him; it proved to him that I was still myself, that I wasn’t scared or confused.
He glared back at me, but I saw his eyes soften slightly.
His head jerked in a nod, and I looked back at Clevv.
Clevv barked an order at one of the other hellhounds—who looked irked with the command, but followed it. He disappeared into the forest for a few tense moments.
None of the rest of us moved until he came back, peeled the top off of a fruit that looked like something between an onion and a tulip, and held it to Priel’s lips.
My hellhound stared at me as he drank the liquid, not closing his eyes until they rolled back into his head and he collapsed.
His pack members caught him before he hit the ground, and Clevv growled at me that I needed to shift and stay next to him.
My pounding, panicked heart and I shifted anyway, and when Clevv started to run, I followed.
We madeit back to the land I recognized as the pack’s space before Priel woke up.
Mare, Ervo, and the hounds with them landed.
The men shifted back, and I did too. I should’ve stayed in my hound form though; I felt safer when I was a badass flaming-bear-wolf-thing than my wimpy human self.
Yeah, technically I was a fae, but I stillfelthuman most of the time.
“North will come home with me,” Clevv announced. “Chain Priel and Ervo, and compete to determine who will claim Mare.”
Fury had me clenching my fists.
