CHAPTER 47

I should have gone after her. I should have known. I should have been there. Why did I think she would be safe? The truth was, he didn’t think the Harvenk spy that had gotten through the border would be stupid enough to come to his kingdom’s stronghold. It told him something, even in the depths of his fear for Lola. It told him that the Harvenks wanted Lola dead so much that they were willing to risk outright war to accomplish the goal. It was ludicrous that they should go to such lengths just to kill one human woman, but Russel could no longer deny the facts. Or push them off. Or simply ignore them because it was easier than trying to understand what might be going on. Lola was special. She was special in a way that others weren’t, himself included. As he raced across the castle courtyard, down the length of the walls, across paths and lawns, and anything else in his way, his worried mind kept coming back to the things he’d seen when he was with her. The weird way she could sort o