Chapter 45

Delaney

"Are you okay? Goddess baby," Kai inspected, his brother beside me, tilting my head, eyes roaming over my body in the dark, searching for any injuries. We had shifted back behind the trees after the alpha kings arrived with a change of clothes. The adrenaline I had felt when I shifted was now crashing, leaving me trembling on my feet. I hugged myself, glancing at Nyra, who was locked in a heated argument with Elias.

The moment my mates established that we were okay, they exploded. "What the hell were you thinking?" Ronan roared, the question directed at me, fists clenched at his sides.

"And you," he turned to Carter, his nostrils flaring, voice dropping low into something lethal. "You come to my estate, sneak my mate out, and almost get her killed?" He zoomed past me, knocking Carter against the bark of a gnarled tree. From the beating he