Jax's POV
My mate had really blown me away in that council room. Benedict was a piece of work, and I was glad that he had been called out for the way he'd been treating his slaves. I was even glad that Carly had some closure about what happened with her parents, even though I knew that she was now grieving all over again for them.
When I felt a tingle in the bond, and saw that she'd been honed in on Benedict, and then all of a sudden her side of the bond had gone silent until it came back with a plethora of fury. I'd realized that she'd used her magic to somehow connect with his mind, and she'd seen something that had really upset her. I'd immediately latched onto our link and was able to see everything that she'd seen in his thoughts, and my protective instinct to make sure that she was
