“What is?” I feel wary.

“He’s been assigned as your guard.”

CHAPTER 8

Lexion

I have never been so blatantly ignored and disregarded as I have been in the past five hours.

Standing in the corner of the vet clinic, I glower at the tiny bite-sized woman doing all the ignoring.

She hasn’t even looked in my direction since we left the territory. She’s not even hiding the fact that she doesn’t want me here. Her whole body is stiff whenever she walks past me to retrieve ...