Declan, who’d always been ‘the pretty boy’ as the guards liked to call him. They liked to pick on him, but Lucien had always shielded and protected him. No matter what he had to do to save him.
Lucien had a lot of weaknesses in captivity because he cared about all his people, but Declan was his greatest weakness.
Coza was furious; he whipped Declan instead.
Declan’s hoarse shouts filled the air with each stroke of the whip, but he never moved from Lucien’s back.
Lucien had tried to protect Declan, but he couldn’t move his body. Lucien tried to protect Declan just as much as Declan tried to protect him.
Declan was no slave; he couldn’t take intense torture. Lucien usually protected him, but he could not that day. They whipped him badly. Declan was nearly unconscious when they announc
