THOR
Pinned against the wall, struggling for air, I looked up at Dextera, her chest heaving, lips split and bloodied.
Fury tore through me like wildfire. To think she’d let herself be cornered by nothing more than lowly maids instead of striking back.
Foolish.
When she finally rose to return the favor, I only shook my head. Too late.
She’d already lost the perfect moment to carve fear into their bones, to teach them a lesson they’d never forget. And those wretches, those pitiful scraps of flesh thought they could lay hands on her? Force poison down her throat?
Unforgivable.
I stopped watching and listening in on them, progressing towards the chaos.
My voice thundered down the corridor sharply again. “Who dares touch what’s mine?”
Everything froze. Their fists stilled midair and th
