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Startled, I approached her cautiously, raising my hands to calm her down. Alle, her maid, was nowhere around, and Calliver tried to intervene, but I waved the guard away.
“Leave us,” I ordered him.
Uneasily, the head of the Royal Guards eyed me, but I gave him a no-nonsense look, and he did what he was told, reluctantly shuffling out of my study to leave me with my unbalanced sister, who stood trembling in front of me.
How did she even know I was gone?
I considered that Agnan had somehow managed to turn Cyndella against me, but dismissed the thought. She was far too paranoid to allow it. She wasn’t letting anyone near her.
“Where is Alle?” I demanded, looking over her shoulder for the maid.
“Never mind Alle! Where have you been? You were going to leave with her, weren’t you? You were going to take off and leave me here!”
I shook my head, leading my sister toward the sofa to sit her down. “No, Cyn, of course not. What would make you think that?”
“You were gone! Not answering your phone!”
“Since when do you call me?” I asked dryly. “If I knew you’d be looking for me, I would have kept my phone on.”
She stared at me skeptically, but the panic in her face didn’t diminish. “Where were you, Zen?”
I sighed and released her shoulders, sitting with her on the tufted couch. “Mirielle and I went looking for answers,” I admitted. “About who she is and why the Order of Souls is so fixated on her.”
It was the wrong thing to say to my fragile-minded sister. Another wave of anxiety washed over her face, and she jumped up. “Bringing her here was a mistake! Get rid of her, Zen!”
I pursed my lips and shook my head. “I can’t do that, Cyn. She’s… she’s my mate.”
It was better to be blunt and rip the bandage completely off.
“NO!” Cyndella screamed, but I had been expecting the reaction. The door to my office opened, and Alle hurried in, her complexion ashen.
“Forgive me, Alpha,” the servant sputtered. “I don’t know how she keeps doing this…”
But I did. Cyndella was more clever than she let on. She could come and go as she pleased when the mood struck her, sneaking under Alle’s radar when the maid least expected it.
“Take her back to her rooms,” I instructed Alle.
“Yes, Alpha.”
“Did you find them?” Cyndella demanded, shoving her arm away from Alle’s hand.
I peered at her speculatively. “What?”
“The answers that you were looking for?”
I chewed on the insides of my cheeks, tempted to tell her the truth. I wondered what my sister would do with the fact that Mirielle was royalty, just as much of a princess as she was.
“Yes,” I replied simply. “But that’s a matter for another time.” I nodded at Alle. “Don’t let her out of your sight again, Alle. This is happening too frequently.”
A hot blush of embarrassment stained Alle’s cheeks, and she nodded quickly. “Yes, Alpha.”
“Send Calliver in on your way out.”
She led my sister out of the study, and my head guard returned, casting the closed door a look like he expected Cyndella to return in a whirlwind any second.
“She’s not coming back,” I reassured him.
“I know it’s not my place to question you, Alpha, but it is my place to protect you. I wish you hadn’t gone off without telling me,” Calliver told me, albeit cautiously.
