“A word my king.”
I tensed. Was there no end to their shameless behaviour? I'd just helped Shyla sit comfortably in the carriage when the timid request came from behind me. Both her parents stood heads bowed in submission. The very sight of them roused the anger I had swallowed for my mate's sake since we've been here.
"We promise to take as little of your time as possible." The father insisted and despite my own desire to punish them as they deserved for what they'd done to my mate, I nodded. Because as strange as it would seem, I had had every intention to pay them a visit once I got Shyla back safely to the palace. While she may have declared that she'd heard enough, the anguish in her heart that I'd felt as though it were my own had been the one to speak. Not her. I knew she'd merely
