122: A Partner in Crime

Cora’s POV

The second our eyes locked, the archer took to their heels and ran off towards the palace fence and jumped over it expertly, completely disappearing from my sight. I didn't know what to do, I was torn between tending to Kai’s wounds as a means of repaying the debts I’d stacked up or going after the archer and ripping his/her throat out on his behalf—also in a bid to pay my debt.

Or that’s what you’d like to believe is your motive. I shoved my wolf’s voice to the curb the moment she questioned the root of my intentions.

However, I couldn't deny that there was something incredibly sickening about seeing Kai hurt by someone else. He was my arch enemy, mine to hurt, mine to torment, mine to frustrate, mine to kill and no one else’s.

It was nothing but that, nothing other than sheer rivalry.

“I’ll pull this out for you now,” I knelt at his side and curved my fingers around the poisoned arrow, but as I tried to pull on it, my skin began to burn and I jerked away from him.

“It’s s