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Guard. Talbott’s
first responsibility, by blood oath, was to the Crown and the Monarchy.
However, never in a hundred million years would I ask him to leave his
just-returned fiancée. And I knew my husband well enough to discern he felt the
same way.
    “Stay here, Talbott,” Kiran told him. “We’ll check it out
and come back for you.”
    “You’ll come back,” Talbott confirmed.
    “We’re not going to engage.” Kiran looked down at me with a
steely, determined expression hardening his beautiful features. “If this is an
attack, we won’t engage. We’ll go take a looksee and come right back.”
    Talbott nodded once and sat up, pulling Lilly onto his lap
again. He unsheathed his battle sword from where he’d left it on the nightstand
and laid it across his lap as well. He wouldn’t let Lilly be taken from him
again. I could see that as plain as day on his face.
    And I trusted him to do whatever it took to keep her safe.
Nothing would be strong enough to come between them again. Nothing except death
and that was an infinitely more acceptable solution to either of them than
being separated from each other.
    I would have felt the exact same way if it were Kiran and
me.
    “A looksee?” I nudged Kiran with my elbow when we were out
in the hallway.
    He grinned down at me. “Well, I don’t know how to speak all
that military talk. Talbott’s the head of the Guard. I’m just a lowly, King, in
eternal service to his Kingdom.”
    “Alright, your royal, Humbleness,” I told him. “Let’s go
find out who’s trying to blow up our home.”
    All seriousness now, he said, “Stay close, Love. I have a
very bad feeling about this.”
    “Me, too,” I whispered. Because I did. I had a horrible
feeling about why the Citadel felt like it had exploded and why there were now
gun shots heard around every corner.
    The war had followed us home.
    No matter how purposefully we tried to stay off the
battlefield, we wouldn’t be able to. We were being forced to enter the gauntlet.
    Forced to defend our Kingdom with our own hands and
strength.
    I tried to be disappointed about this.
    I really tried.
    For like a second.
    But really, I had been born for this one particular task.
This Kingdom was mine and I would not give it up easily. If they wanted a
fight…
    I would give them a fight.

 
    Chapter Four

 
    Where are you? I
demanded of my brother through our telepathic connection. It was dangerous
these days to open up the field of unified telepathy we could share so easily.
    We were both married now.
    There were parts of our individual lives that we wanted to
stay miles and miles away from. I loved my brother dearly, and I loved his wife
even more. But I didn’t want to see them loving each other.
    Not ever.
    And they felt the same way about Kiran and me.
    So we kept to ourselves these days.
    However, this was an extenuating circumstance and I needed
to know that he was safe.
    I’m on my way to
Amelia . He told me. She’s back in our
room. Have you seen anything?
    I pressed myself against the cold, stone wall and looked
down at the battle being waged on my front steps. Terletov’s men attacked in
hand-to-hand combat with the Titan Guard tasked with protecting the Citadel.
    With the element of surprise, Terletov had a severe
advantage and seemed to be easily subduing my trained-from-birth Guard.
Although, Terletov’s men had some kind of gas they were spraying in the face of
my men. My men fought valiantly, but our weapons could not compete with the
advanced warfare Terletov seemed to have developed.
    It’s Terletov and his
men. They’re taking the Castle.
    Avalon sighed outwardly, but I felt it in the echoes of our
mind . I can see that. They’re everywhere.
How come we didn’t know he had this kind of army?
    Avalon, what do we
really know about him? Hardly anything. I felt irritable and I was taking
it out on my brother. Even though this wasn’t his fault, I couldn’t help
myself. I needed to snap at someone.