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It looked like a hell realm as it all glowed red in the night.
“The path to the palace is clear,” he stated, selecting the Queen’s Legion, tuning out all the other channels. “Take it now.”
Kaiden had checked thrice before sending his wife to that monster. He only prayed that Kaita and her warriors had already sacked the palace.
More Neprijat ships came down, from the stars this time.
Kaiden switched back to his legion. “Take what cannons you can. Fire at will,” he ordered, rattling off the numeric codes Varan’s disc had ferreted out.
He gritted his teeth and fired over and over, making sure nothing and no one came close to the female he loved with his entire body and mind, heart and soul. More than life itself.
Adelina sprinted up those stairs white as snow and Kaiden saluted, reminding her he would always have her back.
She touched her fingers to her brow and gave him a nod.
Even in her battle rage she was aware of him, loved him. He could feel it wrap around his soul through the bond.
Kaiden roared his battle cry – for her.
Chapter Nineteen
Battle for Khara
NASH
Despite how much he’d trained throughout his life, it was still all he could do to keep up with Adelina.
Even after they’d taken Hai, Nash wasn’t prepared for this new warrior queen. She was everything she’d become over the last cycle and more – completely in tune with herself.
Varan panted behind them, but he was only a step behind and he never flagged, never slowed. The Queen’s Guard surrounded them in a ‘U,’ just barely keeping up.
Adelina had set a grueling pace, but Nash felt the same insistent urge she did. It pushed him harder and harder up those damn stairs that he used to run up and down four times a day as part of his workout.
The sight of the palace made him ache inside and out. Nash tried to shut out his last memories of this place – mixed in with the bad. That recording of what the Neprijat did to his family would haunt him forever. It tainted his memories of playing with his siblings as they’d grown up. The trouble they’d gotten in together and the shy young princess from Draga who had taken in his world with eyes full of wonder and admiration.
He would never forget the way Adelina had loved his home as much as he had.
But it was no longer his home. Not anymore – and the sadness he’d expected wasn’t there. Nash didn’t think he could ever live in this place again, not after what had happened. It was best he’d be in Draga.
If he could kill the king.
If Kaita hadn’t already.
They’d gotten no other message from her after she’d pleaded for them to hurry and Nash was terrified of what that meant.
Adelina reached the golden doors first. For the first time in his life they weren’t closed. Nash put a hand on her shoulder to stop her from bursting through – blind and unprepared.
He leaned against the door and peered through the crack, trying to get a sense of what waited for them.
The sound of hounds howling and shrieking reached them from the city. Varan glanced back, grinning when Kaiden took them out with one of those cannons. “I really like that thing,” Varan said. “Think we could get one?”
“We have them already,” Adelina replied, watching Nash with narrowed eyes.
“Really? I had no idea.”
“My scans showed them inside the sculptures of the wolves on the Draga Royal Palace,” Nash muttered. There didn’t seem to be any movement. Bodies littered the floor and blood was everywhere, but whatever battle had been there had already moved on.
“The wolves?” Varan asked in disbelief. “There are so many.”
