Page 32 of Their World

“This is a lot of information,” Kayden whispered as he flipped through the book. “Wait, they have a king?”

“Yes, and one of you killed his to-be mate. He’s after you all to kill whichever one of you did it.” I glanced at Mason, who still held my hand. “I—I think it might have been you.”

Mason shrugged, unworried and said, “I’ve killed a lot of them.”

“What do you mean they’re trying to survive?” Trey asked.

I had to slow down, my heart pounded and lungs burned from running to them and continuing to run. “Haven’t you noticed the burnt land? There was a war and a plague and it wiped out their crops. They’ve been coming to our world to get resources and food to survive. There’s also this advisor … I will talk about him later, but he’s told them that to survive they have to go to war with us, but I’ve been trying to convince Jol?—”

“Who’s Jol?” Mason asked, a bit of growl in his tone.

“King Jolmach, their king,” I explained.

That made all three growl.

“You’re on a nickname basis with the king?” Kayden asked.

“This is not the time for this!” I shouted and pulled my hand out of Mason’s.

Kayden gave Trey the book, picked me up, and they started running again. “Where are we headed to, exactly?”

I clutched the necklace in one hand and said, “I’m hoping the necklace will give us a portal. One that we can take to get home.” I knew the portals were the Grand Advisor’s doing, but I had to keep playing dumb to some of his schemes.

“Princess!” Jol bellowed from somewhere behind us.

“Shit! He’s faster than I thought he would be,” I whined. Mason started to turn, but I shouted, “Just run!”

He growled, but they kept going.

“Please, necklace. Please give us an escape,” I begged.

The sooner I could get them home and get the book to my family, the sooner I could come back and work things out with Jol. I hadn’t lied. I would one hundred percent return to help them. Even if it meant possibly coming to face him and fight him.

A portal opened about fifty yards in front of us. “There!” I shouted and pointed.

The guys sprinted forward and we made it through the portal.

Pushing out of Kayden’s arms, I turned to face the portal, fear coursed through me as I watched Jol run closer.

“You!” Jol snarled and pointed at Kayden.

My eyes widened and mouth opened. Kayden? It had been Kayden?

“I will have your head!” Jol bellowed.

“I’m sorry!” I shouted at him. “I can’t let you kill them!”

The portal started to close and I backed up, arms out to make the guys back up as well. “I’m sorry, Jol.”

His eyes bore into mine. “This isn’t over, Little Queen.”

I nodded. “I know.”

The portal closed and I fell into Kayden. “We’re in so much trouble,” I whispered as tears streamed down my face.

After being huggedand kissed by every single one of my family members and Maya, an emergency meeting was called with the full family so I could give them an update. I took the necklace,wrapped in a cloth again, and set it outside away from the house, just in case I was right that the Grand Advisor could hear us through it.

When my phone connected to the network, hundreds of missed calls and text messages came through, making my phone vibrate and beep so much it grew really hot. I ended up turning it off and leaving it in my room.

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