Lambert’s POV.
We hurried back to the Star Rock as fast as our legs could carry us. I held the unconscious woman tightly in my arms while my warriors kept pace behind me. Her body was still soaked, and droplets of water continued to trickle from her hair onto my forearms.
Without thinking, I adjusted my cloak over her to shield her from the chilly mountain air.
She couldn’t die.
I didn’t know why my heart was so insistent, but I felt an urge to save her.
“She’s burning with fever,” Marcus mentioned.
He was right. Even through the layers of wet fabric, I could feel the unnatural heat radiating from her body. Her condition was already critical. A fever would only make matters worse.
“We’re almost there,” I said.
The towering stone walls of Star Rock finally appeared between the tre
