Nikolai’s POV
Sometime in the late evening, Lumis had sent a number of guards down to the cells to move us from the main holding area, into private long-term rooms. Gideon and I were given shared space at the end of the hall. Valric was put in the next room and eventually Cyrano was brought to join him. Rather than a gate of silver bars, this was an enclosed room with a hydraulic locking door made of thick silver. There was a very small square window in the center.
“Hey!” I shouted to one of the guards who had brought Cyrano. “I want to see my mate, I know she’s here.” I recalled back to earlier in the evening... when I could smell her scent nearby.
“Yeah?” The man laughed. “So you can mark her? That’s not gonna happen.”
He turned around and I shouted again, “Just tell me why she was
