Page 29 of Her Silent Knight

“I’m tired of arguing with you beast. I must dress before she awakens.”

Ignoring the growls of his dragon, Kaede headed to the bedroom. Knowing the layout saved on time. He found his clothes in his mate’s closet on the top shelf. They were in a box labeled ‘To Trade’.

She’d planned on trading his items. He searched through the box to make sure all of his stuff was there. His weapons and syringes were missing. So was the sleeping toxin. Kaede dressed quickly.

He found his boots in a separate box. After lacing those up, he went in search of his other items. He searched her makeshift dresser. The drawers were lopsided but they got the job done. That hadn’t been here when the previous owner lived here.

Someone made this for her and they didn’t even do a good job. That person must die.

Indeed. Kaede pulled one drawer out. Bingo. He found his syringe and his vial. Plus, other trinkets. He also found his comm device. He picked it up and checked it. Shit. It was cracked.

He wouldn’t be able to contact the compound for a ride home. He’d have to trek through the snow with his mate. But that wasn’t what pissed him off. The words carved into the wood of the drawer was what pissed him off.

Carved into the wood were the words, Made with love... and lust. From Rhen.

Kaede’s skin heated. A string of smoke curled from his nostrils. That bastard Rhen. That leech was the one who’d been protecting his mate all this time. That ended today. And when he saw Rhen, he was going to rip his fucking head off.

The wood splintered. Kaede let the pieces fall to the floor. His mate wouldn’t be living here anymore. Therefore, she didn’t need this badly built dresser Rhen had constructed for her. Kaede would build her a better one. And he’d build it with Rhen’s bones.

I will burn his flesh from his body.

Kaede nodded. “Sounds like a plan.”

Kaede stared around the room. He’d been prepared to pack some of his mate’s items to take with them. Most of this stuff was probably given to her by Rhen.

Leave it. We will get her new things. Better things.

Even to his own ears, both he and his dragon sounded childish. Oh well. For his mate, he’d be that. He refused to let another male care for his woman. The only thing he’d take from here was a coat and boots. Despite the fact that she was a fire witch, he wasn’t taking her from the warmth of her home without a coat and boots.

And her red scarf. She seems attached to it.

Yes, the scarf and hoodie. He’d take that. If later he found out they were gifts from Rhen...

We’ll burn them.

Indeed. Kaede searched the room for the items his mate would need.

Bring her girly things. Our female cousins always liked soaps that smelled like flowers.

Right. Why hadn’t he thought of that?

Because you’ve never had a woman before.

“Neither have you.”

I pay attention.

“You’ve just been asleep. Things from the past are fresh in your memory. I can barely remember my cousins.”

Kaede found a backpack. It was a nice one. Black, leather, sturdy. She would’ve had to trade something valuable to get something like this. Or Rhen had gotten it for her. A growl rumbled through him.

He’d use it for now and burn it later. He began filling the pack with things his mate may need. Things that would be hard to come by at the compound. For a woman living alone, she had a lot of things.

Luckily, he didn’t find anything that suggested a male lived with her. Had he, he might’ve hunted Rhen down right now and ended him. Kaede shoved a comb and brush into the pack.

Both were hand made of what looked like bones and thorns from the filenlar plant. He shoved that into the backpack also, careful not to damage it. In a different drawer, he found items that she couldn’t have gotten from here.

They must’ve been things she’d had on her when she arrived. Kaede picked up a bracelet. Engraved on the inside of the bracelet were the words, Sisters are best friends you can never get rid of.