Chapter 63

Rikash paced the room, the movement helping his thoughts to untangle. Amelia s Bond shone brightly in his mind, red, purple, and pink with sparkling points of gold. It was beautiful, he thought, and terrifying because she was not with him, but with Nadyr. It was not Rikash's body on hers that brought her such pleasure, it was his second s. The telepath had told him that Nadyr loved his mate. Nadyr had submitted and taken a mate to appease him, Rikash told himself. Those were not the actions of a man that intended to challenge him, so the fact that the second loved Amelia and had seduced her into such enjoyment was of no consequence, except that it infuriated him. His first instinct had been to return to his domicile and tear Nadyr into small pieces whilst his mate watched, but he had rutted himself calm with the telepath s body, and now paced as he tossed the situation around his mind. The telepath had stopped crying, at least, he thought, casting a glance at where s