Page 104 of Enchanted Kingdom
Hearing that, I didn’t want to know the number of men the two before me had murdered in the name of mercy.
Prince Krewan’s eyes met mine. “My father believes he broke me.”
“Wait,” I said, remembering something as I turned toward Owen. “What is the personal item of his I am quite fond of? Warrick?”
Owen shook his head. “No. The wolf.”
“Rafe?” Prince Krewan asked. “You’ve seen him?”
Owen nodded. “Once. In the forest.”
I winced.
Owen picked up on it. “Not once?”
“Twice.”
“That’s odd,” Prince Krewan offered. “He won’t go near me.”
“You’re the one that let him go,” Owen stated. “He’s still harboring a grudge.”
“It’s been six years,” Prince Krewan said. “You’d think he’d rather want to live than starve over his grudge.”
“He wasyourwolf?” I asked confused.
Prince Krewan nodded. “The forest used to have lots of animals before it started dying. I found him as a pup, abandoned. So I raised him myself.” He sighed. “Before I tried to kill my father, I let him go in the forest. Which was not kind. Understand with wolves he would have more than likely had to fight the alpha once I let him go. He wasnotone of them. But he was also not safe in the castle either.”
I gasped. “So what happened?”
“He became the new alpha,” Owen stated.
I put my hand over my mouth. “Oh.”
Prince Krewan looked back out the window. “But after my father had just killed the woman I loved because she got pregnant at an inopportune time for him, I wasn’t sure he wouldn’t have killed the wolf and fed him to us just to spite me.”
“That is exactly what he would’ve done, and we both know it,” Owen agreed.
I shook my head. This entire conversation was a lot to take in. “But wait. Doesn’t all this mean Warrick is Enchanted too?”
Prince Krewan’s eyebrows shot up as if he was surprised I asked that. “Yes, it does. So we have no more than seven years to take down the king before Warrick comes into his powers and the secret is out.”
I opened my mouth and shut it. Opened it again and shut it.
“Ask,” Owen stated. “You finally have a way to get answers. Just ask.”
I internally winced as I asked, “So how are you so sure you’ll take down the king this time around?”
“Remember when you saw Keir’s and my magic combine in the kitchens?” Prince Krewan asked me.
Owen rolled his eyes. “You do that right in front of her, yet I’m the bad guy for letting her figure things out.”
Prince Krewan glared at Owen, still not happy with him, apparently. The prince moved his eyes back to mine. “You were correct in that Keir’s and my magic now has the ability to combine. It didn’t back then. Back before we bonded our magic.”
I gasped.“You’re kin bonded?”
He gave me a nod. “Kin bonding is always thought of as the weakest form of bonding magic that we have, but even a strong kin bonding can result in the magic being able to combine. We’ve been wrong to assume a kin pairing is weaker. It’s all about the strength of the connection. And that’s not limited to blood.”
I sat back in my seat taking that in. That was why Keir trusted Prince Krewan so much. That was why he said he’d know if Prince Krewan was scheming against him. And based on this entire discussion, I didn’t even know if Prince Krewan wanted the crown. All he really wanted was revenge.
