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“Fine. Come out and talk,” Priel called down into the cave.
If he’d already removed the final door enough, I was pretty sure they would’ve just jumped down and murdered the guy.
“I need something as a sign of good will,” Clevv added.
“Get out now or I’ll kill you where you stand,” my hound snarled.
A moment passed, and then Ervo and Priel were stepping back so Clevv could get out.
If they actually let him live after hurting Mare, I was honestly going to question everything I’d learned about the fae. I wasn’t passionate about death sentences, but they had made it very clear that any mistreatment of women was an offense that would result in death.
As far as I knew, it had never happened before.
But as Priel had so helpfully pointed out, they weren’t innocent. Clevv had known exactly what he was doing, and still decided to do it.
Clevv stood straight and confident, even as he looked at Priel and said simply, “I made a mistake.”
I scoffed.
Like hell he had.
That bastardchoseto hurt Mare.
There was a tense pause before Priel growled to Ervo, “Your female was the injured one. This is your call, Brother.”
I knew what was coming, then, with a chill that slid down my spine.
In a smooth motion, too fast for my eyes to even really track, Ervo’s massive body spun and swung. His claws sliced through the hound’s throat faster than Clevv could so much as flinch.
And I was really damn glad that guy was on our side.
My eyes closed before I could see Clevv’s head plummeting toward the ground.
I still heard the awful thunk, though.
Mare’s stomach made an awful sound.
I spun to face her, shifting back to my human form as I did, and grabbed her tangled curls to hold them away from her face as she bent over and vomited. When her stomach was empty, she murmured a thank you to me, and I released her hair.
“And the other hounds?” Ervo asked Priel in a steady voice.
Priel growled again, “Still your call. My female wasn’t injured because of their decisions; yours was. If you find any of these bastards responsible for the pain Mare suffered, they deserve to die as well.”
Ervo studied the hellhounds forming a divider between him and us.
And then he began stalking toward us.
Mare scrambled back to her feet and shoved her way between the men, placing herself directly in front of Ervo.
He stopped a few inches from her.
“Please don’t hurt them,” she said.
His eyes narrowed.
“They made a mistake; that’s all. If they were okay with what Clevv did, they would’ve kept working with him. Instead, they helped us.”
Fury bloomed in his eyes.
