Page 81 of Heart of the High King
“How did he find out we were mates?”
“How do you think? I put your title on the form.”
Rafe tossed his fork to his dish and scooted his chair back as fear tightened his throat. Shoving it away, he let the anger that quickly followed flourish. “What the fuck do you mean? Why would you do something so fucking stupid? I didn’t tell you to make that information public. No one is supposed to know that shit.”
“Rafe—”
“No, I don’t have fucking time to talk to you right now.” Wheeling out of the room, he fished his phone out of his pajama pocket. Swiping the screen, he got in touch with Conley.
“RK Conley.”
“It’s Rafe, I need to talk to you.”
“Congratulations! I’m so excited for you and Aleksander. This is awesome, now you can—”
As soon as Rafe got to his room and slammed the door, he cut Conley off. “You don’t understand. Now they’ll know where to find me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Charlton and Sullivan know about Aleksander. That’s why they wanted me dead. It’s the reason they wanted to draw it out and make me suffer. They are fucking homophobes. I had to die because I’m gay,” Rafe managed, tears overwhelming him. The last thing he’d ever wanted to do was bring danger to the doorstep of D’Vaire. With his record sealed and his name fake, the plan was for him to quietly die without his family ever being made aware of where to find him.
While he knew there was a big reinforced magical bubble that protected D’Vaire, he couldn’t trust that Charlton and Sullivan wouldn’t find some way to hurt anyone in Aleksander’s family. Not everyone stuck to the land and mansion, and would his family take any opportunity to hurt the people that had unwittingly made themselves a target simply by being ruled by a gay High King?
“Okay. Don’t get upset. Drys and I will be right there. We’ll talk and figure things out,” Conly said soothingly. His calm demeanor did nothing to appease the terror flooding Rafe, and he was stupidly nodding as if somehow the Reverent Knight could see him.
“I don’t know what to do.”
“I’m going to hang up and teleport. I will literally be there in a few seconds.”
“Okay. Thank you. I don’t want to hurt anyone here.”
“I know. This could be a good thing. Nothing has worked so far. Let’s see how they react to knowing you’re very much alive. You’re safe at D’Vaire. No one can hurt you or anyone else. I’ll see you in a few.”
Rafe managed to hang up and tossed the phone onto his bed. “What the fuck are we going to do, Mortis?”
“No danger.”
“I certainly hope not.”
