Riven wasn’t done. He stalked toward Kaine again, fists clenched so tight his knuckles were bone white. “You lied. You planted a tracker. You made her doubt herself, put her through hell, and now, now you’ve got something else to say?” Kaine’s lip curled, blood at the corner of his mouth from where Riven had shoved him earlier. “She’s unstable. She doesn’t even know what she is. And now she’s carrying those things? Please. We all know how this ends. She’ll destroy them, just like she destroys everything else-” Crack.
Sethis’s boot collided with Kaine’s face before anyone else could react. The sound echoed through the great hall like a thunderclap. Kaine dropped hard, knocked halfway across the floor, blood smearing beneath his jaw as his head lolled back, stunned and gasping. “Say that ag
