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Lino watched Cassy storm away from the yard and he turned around, equally fuming. She was mistaken about everything. She did not understand what had happened, and it was more annoying that she would not even hear him out.

He had never seen her so angry, and he did not know how to deal with it.

His area expertise did not extend to dealing with an angry mate.

He had felt her outrage through the bond while he had been on the ride, and it had pulled him all the way back to the castle from where he had been in an important meeting with the few sentries he had left by the borders that were still alive.

He had been out there every single day since she had been attacked by the sorcerers. He had hoped to find a clue on who might have sold out details of Cassy's location to the sorcerers. The timing had been off.

He had had physicians look at the dead bodies they uncovered everyday and it had been evident that the deaths occured a little after midnight. Not five hours earl