***VERA***

My body locked in place just as Blake's voice echoed loudly through the tunnel.

“Just where do you think you're taking my bride to?”

I slowly looked up and immediately felt my stomach tighten.

Blake stood several feet away from us with an ice spear clutched tightly in his right hand. The lantern light reflected across the frozen weapon, making it glow faintly inside the darkness of the tunnel. Yet it wasn't the spear that frightened me. It was the look in his eyes. There ...