Except that I was wrong when his people poured in. The whole place went quiet as the footsteps of warriors matched inside. The crowd parted at the center, creating a passage for them and that was when I noticed the Emblem on their outfit.
It wasn’t Ian’s people but… Kaden’s.
This scent… there was no way I could mistake it.
“Kaden…” I breathed out, had one of my legs in front of me already as I hurried to see if it was really him.
The crowd parted for him. My heart hammered in my chest. And when I saw the bruise on his forehead still in its healing stage, I saw red.
I wanted to kill whoever did that to him.
My heart clenched and then my insides melted when they met his narrowed gaze on mine.
There was something feral and unhinged in the way he looked at me, the way he started to
