Chapter 96

“I… thank you, Robert ,” she said, stunned. She'd forgotten what Gabriel said, that Robert was his warrior—chosen to shield her at some point of the ritual. She'd notion the function to be merely symbolic.

But now, searching at this crowd of males, the light of determination in their eyes, she adjusted her expectations.

“Good luck,” Evelyn murmured, stepping to the side so she stood alone.

Amelia took a deep breath and nodded, praying she wasn't going to need it.

Gabriel POV

His coronary heart thumped towards his ribs painfully as the adult males moved as a crew to stand between him and Amelia , disturbing her attention.

She gazed at him over the crowd, but soon their view of every other was marred by too many bodies, too many tall males, and Gabriel's belly went sick.

She did not realize it, however Amelia was about to be confronted with the worst of him. He'd tried to tell her, however it had been effortless