Chapter 9: The Price of Protection
The first thing Elena Moonveil discovered about the Lycan King's palace was that its doors could lock from the outside.
The second was that Zevarion Ashbourne had lied to her.
She stood in the middle of a luxurious chamber, staring at the two guards stationed outside her door. Beyond them, the corridor gleamed with black marble and silver lamps. Everything in this palace screamed wealth, power, and danger.
"Open the door," she demanded.
One guard avoided her gaze. "His Majesty ordered that you remain here until further notice."
Elena's fingers curled around the pendant Malrec had shown her—the only proof she possessed that the man who had destroyed her family knew something about her mother.
"Then tell His Majesty that if he wants a prisoner, he sh
