CHAPTER 40
AVA'S POV
“I didn't break into the crypt, Draken!”
“You walked directly into a compromised tomb without a weapon!” he roared, his voice dropping an octave as he rounded the desk. His strides were heavy, closing the distance between us before I could even think to retreat. “You have wolf venom still clearing from your system, an anonymous killer targeting you in my own court, and you are standing in a dark crypt pointing out broken runes like you are untouchable!”
“Because nobody else was looking!” I yelled back, stepping forward instead of away, my Southern stubbornness refusing to let him intimidate me. “I am trying to stay alive! I am trying to figure out who is doing this to us!”
Our breath was mingling now. The argument had brought us so close our chests were practicall
