C’bor turned from the window, straight into the path of Taeger’s waiting blade.
“My young friend may not fully understand the destructive power of obedience chains, but I do. You just sentenced the woman he loves, whom he asked to light his markings and presumably carry his children, to die.” Taeger shoved his blade deeper into C’bor’s chest. “And that is unacceptable. So, I’m going to help my friend, my king, steal her away from you. Do you know how to break obedience chains?”
C’bor looked down at the blade protruding from his chest, blood soaking through his silk shirt in an ever-widening path, then back to Taeger, unable to speak, pain and fear in his eyes.
“That’s right. I see you understand,” Taeger murmured into his ear, shoving the blade all the way through skin and bone to his b
