*Rhys*

“Your Majesty, don’t,” a soldier said, gripping my arm.

I shook him off and headed for a light flickering in the distance.

Screaming echoed through the night as flames reached for the sky. I pushed past a crowd of horrified shifters standing frozen and doing nothing. Someone had to do something.

The lady was on fire.

Tied to a stake, with flames rising around her and eating at her clothes, the woman shrieked for help… for ...