Chapter 19
Korrin struggled against the guards, but they held him in place. He was screaming, his voice raw in his throat. He strained to break free, but it was pointless.
Kris and her parents had just been escorted from the circle. Korrin had been in a trance, so focused on Nack’s death that he had hardly realized what was going on. But it had all come into sharp focus the second Kris had screamed his name one final time and disappeared.
He roared, shouting, “Kris! Kris!! Olovina! Where is she?”
But both were gone.
Nack was dead, lying on the ground at Korrin’s feet. Korrin’s eyes kept going down to his body. Blood was everywhere.
“Stop!” Korrin roared. “I’m your King!”
But it hardly did any good. The guards were loyal to the Council through and through. They would only obey the Ki
