For a second, my senses go numb, everything stopped in a twisted moment of time as our traumatizer shot the arrow but it hit the ground a few feet away from where Alpha Kalen is lying.
I can’t breathe, can’t think.
“Have I been shot?”
“Or was it my father?”
Everything starts to fade away including the chaos of the battle as the sound of urgent and heavy footsteps reaches me.
A figure appears from the dark, surrounded by warriors.
It’s Kael. His face is grim, his body soaked in blood, streaks of it across his chest and hands, and the sight pricks something deep inside of me.
Do you know why?
For a heartbeat, I think it’s him.
Kael.
I thought he was behind the attack since he is the one I’m rivalling the throne with and it just happened that the attack happened at my coronati
