The Soft Spot

The expedition to the Shadow Canyons was only two days away. My mind was heavy with the weight of what I had seen, Rhys’s betrayal, the cloaked figure, the word "Harvest," and Demetrius's terrible, lonely exhaustion.

I knew he was sick, and now I knew his second-in-command was planning for his fall. But the King had also nearly caught me spying, and the look in his eyes that night was pure, cold suspicion. The lie about the Mate Bond fever saved me, but it wouldn’t work ...