Chapter 41. What Are You?

Lennox’s POV

The hall is quiet as I carry her away from her room. My footsteps against the hard floor are the only sounds in the palace. I can’t hear Levi and Louis fighting anymore, or maybe I don’t care to hear them. I don’t look back. They are no longer my concern. My only concern is the woman trembling in my arms.

Lotus is silent in my arms. The blanket draped around her body concealing her nakedness from me, but it doesn’t stop me from feeling her skin against my arms. I try to ignore the bond growing stronger with each step I take, but it is becoming impossible. Even with my brother’s scent clinging to her skin, I can’t deny how much I want her. Their scents mixed together sting my nostrils, but not with jealousy. It stirs something deeper, something I don’t dare to put a name to.

My door looms ahead. The room beyond is mine, the one place I can keep her safe from the chaos outside, but I hesitate to push the door open.

“Lennox?” She whispers. He