"Is it Kael?" Ren asked, her voice trembling against his shoulder.
But her question was gone with the wind.
Vex took off.
He wasn't kidding when he said he was fast on two legs. He moved with a supernatural speed, a blur of motion that whipped the trees past them like green streaks of paint.
Ren tightened her grip on his neck—careful not to choke him—and buried her face in the crook of his shoulder to shield her eyes from the stinging air. The cool wind slapped against her skin, but it did nothing to cool the panic rising in her chest.
'It must be Kael's blood,' Ren thought, her heart hammering against Vex's back. 'He and Syris... they must have already started fighting.'
She squeezed her eyes shut. Kael must have known by now. He must have figured out that she had added him to her reverse harem without checking the "terms and conditions" first.
