CHAPTER 19
DRAKEN
“Lock the doors!” I roared. My voice silenced the screaming noblewomen. “Nobody steps a single foot outside this hall. Guards, seal the western gates and the kitchen corridors.”
Fenris was thrashing against my ribs. The beast wanted to rip open every chest in the room to find who had mixed the toxin. But beneath the roaring of the wolf, a cold panic hit my mind through the bond.
Ava.
I looked down. Her fingers were frozen inches from the shattered goblet, her chest rising and falling heavily as she stared at the bubbling acid eating into the table.
The predator inside me departed from the urge to s*******r to the necessity to shield. I stepped over the ruined table, my massive frame blocking her entirely from the court's view.
“Your Majesty, surely this is unneces
