SERA

He was faster than I expected.

For a man his size, Kael moved like water, fluid, adaptive, every motion feeding into the next without wasted energy. I'd seen him fight once before, a brief territorial dispute with a rogue that had crossed the southern border two days after our wedding, and I'd clocked his style as powerful but straightforward. I was wrong. He'd been holding back that day. In the ring with me, with something personal on the line, he fought like he'd been trained by someone ...