Quinn Irina stayed to spend some time with Alec and Erik while I headed to my office. My head reeled with the events that kept powering over us. As acting king during an ongoing crisis, I felt like I was being pulled in fifty different directions at once. I was grateful Erik arrived to fight with us. When his huge dragon first landed though, I’d been seriously worried. Most accounts of the viciousness of dragons were true. Erik seemed to have total control over his beast although perhaps not when he spotted Avery. It was crazy to think she was his mate! He would make a good mate for her. But he had his work cut out to get close to her. She’d always been a closed book. Erik’s insight into Irina’s life was a mixture of fascinating and rage-inducing. In fact, I needed to check in later o