The shift back to Polaris was silent and quick. Kael’s magic carried us away from Starfangs with relentless speed, the black walls and throne room shrinking behind us until they vanished into the mist. Lyra and Calen shifted on their own, neither of them speaking, both lost in thoughts I could only guess at.
We still had no idea where those missing guards were...
Starfangs lingered in my mind like a stain.
Gillian’s screams of agony.
The way the room had bowed to Kael's darkness.
The fear.
The worship.
And Kael—untouchable, merciless, absolute.
And the way my body had reacted to his touch…
I hated this part of myself—the traitorous pull when his fingers had moved across my waist and legs, the heat that had bloomed when he had leaned closer to me. The dark, reckless urge inside of
