Liza’s POV
“Please call the healer to the castle. Lucy fainted—she won’t wake up.”
Kenneth’s voice carried through our link like a blade driven into my chest. His panic pulsed down the bond, thick and suffocating. I forced myself to steady my breathing, sending back warmth and reassurance through the link to try to calm him. If he lost control now, with Zeus pacing inside him like a caged storm, we could risk more than just chaos in the castle.
A measure of relief touched me once I processed his words. She had only fainted. Most likely from shock, perhaps after learning her lover boy was already betrothed. That revelation alone could shatter the strongest of hearts. At least now she will know her place and step away from him, I thought, the words tasting bitter even in the silence of my
