"Don't touch her?"
Arthur spun around and delivered a brutal kick squarely to Aiden's injured leg.
Aiden let out a sharp grunt of pain. Sweat instantly beaded on his forehead, but he refused to drop back to his knees.
I wrenched my wrist out of Arthur's grip and threw myself in front of Aiden, shielding him.
"Hold him down!" Lydia shrieked at the guards, her voice shrill with sudden panic. "How dare a runt cause a scene during an audit!"
Two more guards lunged forward.
Without his crutch, Aiden could only brace his weight and use his shoulder to block the first guard's strike.
I pressed my back against his chest. The heat from my wolf mark was burning so fiercely now it felt like a brand.
On the table, the words of the annulment decree had completely vanished. In their place, intri
