Kiara:I woke up to Nathan drawing patterns on my lower back with his finger.“Good morning beautiful” Nathan said softly, obviously noticing my change of breathing patterns as I woke up, Nathan’s arms tightened around me before he kissed the crown of my head.“Morning” I whispered laying in a more comfortable position beside my husband, having been laying on top of him, literally, I laid down beside him before laying my head on his chest, his arms not loosening around me “when did you wake up?”“About an hour ago” Nathan said softly, I pulled away to look him in the eye, dark circles had formed under his exhausted eyes from crying, he had cried himself to sleep last night, though for some reason he refused to let me go as he slept, it was as if he was afraid that I would be running away, and thankfully, Lilian got a full night of sleep last night, she didn’t wake us up when we fell asleep.

Chapter 81Nathan:“Prince Nathan!” Daniel said walking inside the throne room, he bowed to all of us before straightening to look at me “the guard woke up, he is asking to see you”Daniel’s words had my eyes widen as I felt my heart race in anticipation, wanting to know what had happened when father had died, what had happened to the man himself, how he was shot, how the kings had died, what mother had done, all these questions swarmed my mind making me feel like a heavy weight had been thrown on top of my shoulders.I looked at Kiara who nodded at me to go, she knew that I wanted to listen to whatever the guard had to say on my own, she respected that and I was happy that she did, Grace walked toward me and I raised an eyebrow at her, but she raised hers at me making me fight back shaking my head at her, but she didn’t bother waiting as she walked toward the door of the throne room, clearly letting me know that she wa

Nathan:“Don’t you even think about it Kiara” I snapped at Kiara for suggesting that she and her siblings to leave the kingdom to go and see King Deniz, my eyes widening at her as she looked at me, her eyes somewhat avoiding mine as she knew that I would not approve of this, how could she even think of something like this when the kingdom was literally on the verge of war.“Nathan! Come on you know that the king can help, he can suggest something, plus we’ll be in the kingdom of The Sea, it’s not like we haven’t been there before, and you know that it is safe” Kiara said looking at me as I paced our chamber, I glared at her making her shy back, knowing that she was asking me for something that I would not be approving of, especially at a time like this, no she wasn’t my prisoner here, I would never treat her as so, but if her safety was on the line, then she was not going anywhere.“I said no Kiara, don

Nathan:“Elijah and Nina are on mother and King Alexander’s side…” I said looking at my mate whose eyes widened in surprise, Kiara looked at me as if I’ve suddenly grown a third eye and I couldn’t blame her, I suddenly slapped her with a shocking piece of information about her eldest brother, and despite Elijah once being close to her, we had heard him and his wife plotting how to get Ashton and Kiara out of the castle to set an attack against us.Flashback:“Ashton!” I called the human prince who was walking in the garden with Grace, he frowned in confusion when he saw my exhausted eyes having broken down a while ago in the chamber, I had fallen asleep out of exhaustion, but woke up about an hour later finding Kiara curled up in my arms as she slept, I slowly got up careful not to wake her and went out to get some air, something about her leaving to the King of the Sea did not feel right, the fact that Elijah kne

Nathan:I wrapped my arm around my mate hugging her tightly before I got into the carriage.“Take a good care of yourself” she said in my brain, using the mating bond to her advantage, I smiled and nodded at her.“I will baby girl, and I’ll be back before you know it” I looked at her through the carriage’s window, listening to her racing heartbeat as I knew she was having her own battle in her mind as worry filled her veins about us leaving, but she knew that it had to be done, there was no other way around it, not for now anyway.“You alright?” Ashton asked me noticing my worried expression, we usually took different carriages when going out, but today was exception, especially since we knew that danger was still lurking around every corner, it was no use denying or pretending that it was anything different, if we were going to be attacked, we were prepared to fight.“Just wor