No mistake, he’d sensed, maybe known for a certainty, the beast of bloodlust had a role to play with the woman beneath him. He’d been the one to bring Valen to slaughter Elise, a way to kill his hjärta before Valen even realized. How could the King of Etta rise without the woman who was destined to end his curse? Flickers of the golden ropes leapt through the shadows. Tor and Halvar as the Blood Wraith’s Shade appeared. Both wrapped in golden ropes, they tugged their beast off the woman they didn’t know and tangled their ropes with hers, unknowingly.
