Shock!
Rather feeling shock would be the understatement of the century to explain what Fiona was feeling. She did not what she was supposed to feel. She did not know what she was supposed to think. If she did think then Zadris was going to listen to her thoughts and she would have nothing left as hers either.
“Why do you think that hearing my thoughts would not be an invasion of my delicate mind?” asked Fiona as softly as she could.
“Because I don’t wish to hurt you. And I don’t wish to get hurt.”
Fiona thought about the words he had spoken just now and then realised that he must be speaking them out from a place of deep fear. She could very well understand fear because since Ferdinand had been taken by the fae, all she had known was fear. She might have tried to overcome it but all he
