Kevin's POVI was glad that she wasn't mad at me anymore. I still itched to kiss her though and fought hard to not look at her lips. It was a good thing that we had been interrupted or I didn't know how far I would have taken the kiss. I wanted her in my bed and under my skin.I smiled as we walked to meet the others, hoping that the throbbing erection that I felt wasn't bulging out of my trousers. That would be awkward to explain. How could I tell them that we were only talking if I had my penis strutting out of my pants and begging to be out?Yeah, that must have been one intense conversation. The lips had worked so much. I could imagine and hear the responses of the men in my head.We joined the others and they raised their heads up as they sensed us. I raised my head up, daring my men to say a word.Some of them swallowed as they looked away and I knew that they had understood the signal I had given them and would stick to the warning. Ella was already worried of what they would t

Ella's POVThe men were back. I ran towards the house, heading away from the training ground where I had been with my father as soon as I heard the news.I was relieved that they were back and safe, knowing how worried Kevin had been for the past few days. He had pretended like he hadn't been worried, busy training the men and doing everything to get his mind off the impending war and the men he had sent out back home but he couldn't hide his emotions from me just as I couldn't hide mine from him.Relax, you will fall. You are running too fast.I snorted at Lucy's warning. She didn't just tell me that, knowing how the past few days had been for both me and Kevin.I could feel her rolling her eyes but she didn't say anything else. I also wanted to roll my eyes at her but refrained from doing that, realizing that she was only teasing me.I knew she missed me and was trying to get my attention by teasing me but this wasn't the time. I hadn't talked with Lucy in the past few days because

Ella's POV"Ella, out." Dad shouted from outside where I was to have my trainings.I frowned as I stepped out of the house. Hadn't he said the training was to start by ten, an hour after breakfast? Why was he shouting for me to come out so persistently when I wasn't late? I shook my head as I moved forward. He could be funny at times.Kevin ran out to meet me and pulled me back by my hand, his face covered in worry. I smiled at the sight of him. He was always cute whenever I see him like this though I knew he wasn't trying to be cute. I wondered if he was ever going to stop acting like a worried mum. Even my mum would have trusted me by now and stop acting like I was going to the death cellar anytime I was going to train.I hoped he wasn't going to stop me from fighting the rogues on the D-Day of the war. I was going to fight him and bust his nose on that day if he tried to stop me."Kevin," I gasped, looking at where he held me and then back at his face. "What are you doing? I need t

Ella's POVGosh, this was hard, harder than I thought. Who was I kidding? I knew this was going to be hard before I signed up for it. The real war was probably going to be harder than this. They were rogues I would be fighting against. They were strong, brutal and violent. I couldn't afford to be weak.I was getting tired already from all the cuts and blows I had endured and the energy my body had lost from trying to repair it all. I was grateful I wasn't getting dizzy yet.I stole a glance at Kevin and winced, hating how wrecked he looked. I was the one getting beaten up by his men but he was the one suffering the pain. I needed to win this to put his heart at rest and put a smile on his face.I tuned in to the battle again, focusing on my two opponents who seemed to be enjoying this than they should be. Maybe I was tired and didn't seem right. They were probably too far gone in their characters and acting like they were having fun from this when they weren't. I was probably reading

Kenneth's POVI sat in my office, rolling on the chair as I stared at the birds on my desk. Only four of them were back out of the countless birds I had sent out. I was worried, wondering if the birds had landed safely and the men had gotten my message.It had been four days since I had sent the letters and expected the men to be trooping into the palace but they weren't here yet. I hadn't even gotten a response to my letters and couldn't stop worrying about what the delay was all about.I feared the worst. I feared that the letters had fallen into the wrong hands. I feared that someone totally unrelated to who the letters were meant for had seen the birds flying in the air, shot at them with a catapult and eaten them.My heart squeezed at the thought of my precious birds being turned to meat and ending up in someone's belly. I didn't put precious time in raising them for them to have such a bland ending."Damn it," I cursed, banging my fist hard upon the desk and holding in my wince