MATED TO MY BROTHER'S ENEMY
Pretty, if you weren’t running for your life.
“Hold up,” Geoffrey said, waving his guys into a half-circle, every one of them tense. “Final climb’s a beast, and you lot look half-dead.”
Everyone collapsed onto the rocks, sucking wind. Elena sidled over to Geoffrey, voice low. “What the princess did back there… that’s not just empathy, right?”
He shook his head, almost whispering a curse. “Nope. She woke up some old bloodline thing. She's hell on wheels for anything evil, Kael’s worst nightmare. Didn’t see that coming.”