"I think you were right..." commented Arabella with a sigh, the warriors they had seen down in the city must really have been there looking for her.
"Are you okay?" asked Rhys, stopping to give her a look that made her smile.
"I'll get away with it this time too." denied she, amused, even if her father's expression, who was waiting impatiently for them just outside the castle's walls, wasn't the most encouraging.
Nor was Dragan's look at his side exactly friendly but it didn't matter, it wasn't the first time and it wouldn't be the last either.
Rhys didn't comment, just preceded her again until they reached the walls and he had left her in the care of her family.
Arabella stopped paying attention to him while Sioggard's Alpha exchanged a few private words with her father as she was bu
