Chapter 275

• [Eleanora]
• I was sleeping in the ashes of my husband’s keep, my body protectively wrapped around my clutch when the Elder Guard arrived. Athony, my closest protector, who had been standing guard over us while I slept, screamed in terror as cold steel chains pulled his bestial form to the ground, his body prone under their spears tipped in glowing, blue stones.
• “Shift back to your bipedal form, Queen Eleanora, or we kill your mate.”