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His expression changes to one of anger in a moment, and he jerks back from the servant. “Find her!” He booms, loud enough to make everyone in the room jump. Then, he turns to face the guards. “Lady Cassia has gone missing. I want every man, woman, and child out searching for her. Now!”
The servants scurry out of the room, and the guards around us file out along with them. But I can barely focus on them.Cassia is gone? Where? Why?None of this makes sense.
He faces us. “We need to search as well. Pair up and head east, Prince Cobar and Prince Forrest. We’ll search the west.” He says to me.
My mind is reeling. “What happened to her?”
A stubborn look crosses his face. “It doesn’t matter. We just need to find her.”
I step in front of Prince Sulien before he can leave and lower my voice. “Do you think she was taken?”
“I don’t know,” he says, but he won’t meet my gaze.
If she wasn’t taken, then…“Or did she leave on her own?”
Prince Forrest scoffs. “Why would she leave on her own?”
“She’s going to be our queen,” Prince Cobar says, shaking his head. “She might have needed some time to warm up to the idea, but surely our mate wouldn’t just run away.”
Keeping my focus on Prince Sulien, I ask, “you didn’t answer the question…”
He tries to push past me. I push him back, and his eyes flash with rage. “Watch yourself!”
Watchmyself? When you’re the one hiding things about my bride? When you’re lying straight to my face?I don’t think so.
I shove him again. “Answer the question!”
Anger and desperation comes over his face, and his frustrated words come exploding out, “I don’t know! Okay? I don’t know!”
Shock flows through me. I asked the question, but I never imagined that answer. Our bride, she really could have run away? Our mate?
Fuck.I press my hand to my chest, and I swear the same pain radiating through my chest radiates through all of us as their hands go to their chests, too. The mate bond… It’s a powerful thing. No one should be able to resist it. And being separated from one’s mate, brings pain and misery.
“We need to get her back.”And then, we need to win her heart. Because, apparently, we haven’t.
We were fools not to realize it. Fools to have taken our eyes off of her. And now we have to do whatever we can to get her back and to gain her love.
No matter the cost.
