He never should have left her side. With adrenaline shooting through his veins, he pushes himself to run faster, mindless of the pain at every step and the burn in his lungs. He’d already lost Teddy, he’d be damned if he’d slow down even a little now that Alys might be in danger.
Jayden curses himself for wasting time picking fights with the witch, when his job is to stay by the queen’s side, protecting her. No matter what Chance had said in order to provoke him, he shouldn’t have reacted like that. He had no business being triggered because he has made a choice already. Years ago he had decided not to be her mate.
But he had been upset, too vulnerable to resist a fight with the man that Alys is seriously considering to take as chosen mate. The plain and simple truth is that he is jealou
