Chapter 24 — Hold
Kade did not brace.
That was the thing Sierra could not stop seeing afterward, watching through the c***k of the gallery door with her nails in the wood: he saw eighty pounds of black wolf coming down the length of the room and he did not set his feet, did not lift his hands, did not do a single thing a fighting man does.
He knelt.
Knox hit him at full speed and took him to the floor, and the sound of it went through the shut doors like a dropped anvil.
"MAJESTY—" a guard started.
"Nobody moves."
Inside the gallery it was mostly noise.
The wolf was on his chest, snapping, and Kade was letting it — turning his head, taking the teeth on the meat of his shoulder rather than his throat, and doing nothing back. Blood came up fast and dark and spread on the boards.
He
