Chapter 59. Unlimited Power

Giovanna leaned on Jensen's shoulder, trying to get him to react, but he remained impassive.

She heard the horse trotting and stood waiting. Hovar never came there on horseback and she hadn't heard, in the months she'd been there, any sign that someone else might be passing that way. She remembered Hovar's words and thought in frustration, as she gritted her teeth, that time had passed and she hadn't noticed. The day she had invaded the Hill of the Gods, Jensen had been thirteen years and a few months old; if he was fifteen, that meant he had been away from his husband for almost two years. No news of Calleb, and in all that time, Hovar dominated all her thoughts and she felt ashamed that she hadn't missed Calleb.

The brown horse stopped and she saw the small, delicate feet of the sandal and knew it must be a woman, but she wasn't ready to see her mother. Yuki threw herself into Jensen's arms, who remained motionless, and when she