Her heart pounded in her chest, in terror, when she was fiercely hurled across the room. Elara had anticipated crashing into something hard, but just before she hit the ground, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her to break her fall.
It was Liam, she realized, on raising her face.
"Are you okay?" He worriedly asked her and she nodded slowly as he gently helped her to her feet.
Liam walked over to where Rydar stood, frowning slightly. "Okay, I think you need to calm down. She could have been hurt."
Rydar, however, just sneered, "Just get her out of my sight," before walking off.
Elara merely watched in confusion and anger and agitation, what was happening. She touched her aching wrist where he'd grabbed her earlier. It was hard to get that image of Rydar's eyes from her mind. It wa
