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He took one step into my room before his gaze cut to me, as though his heightened magic told him exactly where I lay. The second he beheld me on the floor with Haxil on top of me, a storm unleased upon Prince Norivun’s face. A split second later, a tsunami of power barreled out of him, the force of it nearly whipping the curtains off the windows.
“Nori...” Haxil’s powerful frame bolted off me while I lay on the floor rosy-cheeked from the wine.
Scorching rage filled Prince Norivun’s expression as something infinitely darker lit his eyes.
“Nori...” Haxil said again, his tone growing warier as he backed up.
Rage rippled across the prince’s face, and he crossed the distance between us in blurred speed, a terrifying snarl ripping from his throat.
“Nori!” Haxil yelled, moving faster than the wind as he retreated. “Rein it in. Ididn’ttouch her.”
But the crown prince lunged for his guard, wrath written upon his features.
“I didn’t touch her!” Haxil roared once more.
I shot to standing and darted to the couch, hoping to place myself between the two males, but one glance at the prince’s face pierced fear into my heart and made any doubt that hewasn’tmy mate vanish like the setting sun.
Terrifying fury rippled across the prince’s features, and with a sickening sense of dread, I realized what was happening.
The mate bond had once again gained control of him, just like it had after Lord Waterline’s attack.
All Prince Norivun had seen was another male trying to lay claim to me, and his instincts had taken over.
Which meant that he was going to kill Haxil if I didn’t stop him.
CHAPTER17
“Nori! Stop!” Haxil yelled again, then again.
“Prince Norivun, please calm down!” I screamed.
It was no use.
Horror descended upon me when I felt his affinity rise. It rushed from the prince, spearing right for Haxil despite the guard being his servant, hisfriend, who the crown prince cared for like a brother.
“No!” I screamed and launched myself in front of Haxil. I plastered myself to the guard. Fear twisted my features as I desperately tried to shield him with everything I had.
But the prince’s affinity barreled right around me, piercing Haxil from the side, and with a sickening sense of dread, I knew that I couldn’t stop it. The prince latched onto his soul, his horrible death affinity pulling that wispy essence from his guard.
“My prince, no! He’s yourfriend!” I shot my own affinity out of my body toward the prince’s magic, grabbing a hold of the shimmering lifeform that was Haxil’s inner soul being sliced away from his form.
The second my affinity made contact with Norivun’s, the energy in the room changed. The seismic pulsing from the crown prince ground to a stop, as though water doused a fire, and for the first time, recognition of where we were, who lay before him, and what he was doing barreled over Norivun’s features.
“Please stop,” I pleaded.
The prince stumbled back. Terror glazed his eyes as his affinity sucked back into him so quickly his magic rushed over my skin.
“Thank the Mother,” I whispered when Haxil’s soul returned to him.
The guard slumped, falling to the floor. The prince moved faster than lightning and broke Haxil’s fall before the guard’s head could crash into the table.
“Haxil,” the prince said urgently as he peered down at his friend. Guilt coiled Norivun’s features. He pounded his fist on the floor. “Fuck, no, what have I done? Haxil!”
The guard blinked, then opened his eyes.
“Thank the gods,” Norivun said, slumping forward and cradling the guard to him.
Groaning, Haxil frowned. “Is that the thanks I get for keeping your—” The guard cleared his throat, then rubbed his side. He massaged the area that the prince’s magic had speared. “For keeping your ward safe?”
