Page 61 of Seeded By Two

We followed them and were dismayed to discover they had already become diluted.

They mixed with other footprints in the carpet and her trail was lost.

Aslas, who possessed none of the tracking skills I did, gave up almost instantly, pressed his fists to his hips and peered down one corridor after another at the junction we were standing at. “So, where do you think she went? The dock?”

I shook my head.

She had been shocked and angry when she left us and I suspected she wouldn’t have a destination in mind.

“She would have just run,” I said. “She wouldn’t think. She just needed to get somewhere safe.”

It was a lot for her to take in…

Seeing there were two princes when she had been led to believe there was only one.

“Are you looking for a female human?”

I turned to find a Limapza male clutching his female mate close, his arm wrapped about her shoulders.

I nodded. “Yes. Have you seen her?”

“She went that way. She almost ran into us. Perhaps you should keep a closer eye on your mate in the future.”

Aslas growled at the back of his throat and took a step forward to eviscerate the male but I held out an arm to block him.

Distracted by my intervention, he calmed down.

“Thank you,” I said. “We will in the future.”

The male led his female away, staring warily at Aslas’s face, although I doubt he could see much through the shadow cast by the hood he was wearing.

Once he was out of sight, Aslas turned on me. “Don’t you dare get in my way again!”

I slapped his hand aside and drew up close to him.

As we were virtually identical in scale, we were eye to eye, nostril to flaring nostril. “You will not tell me what to do after what you’ve done!”

Aslas, his fiery temper once again getting the better of him, blinked, before finally managing to get control of himself.

He took a step back and raised his hands. “Fine. Fine. Just don’t get in my way next time.”

I ground my teeth.

Despite having slept with my fated mate, despite everything he had done, he still thought he could tell me what to do?

“Stop acting like a fool and I won’t have to,” I spat as I marched in the direction the male Limapza had pointed.

Aslas hustled up alongside me, grabbed my shoulder, and turned me around to face him. “I’m sorry for what I did. Truly, I am. It was an accident. I did not do it on purpose. But you must treat me with the dignity my position deserves. I am, after all, still your prince.”

“She is my fated mate,” I told him. “And I’m looking for her. Don’t get in my way and I’ll have no reason to stop you.”

I shouldered past him, accidentally — okay, on purpose — smacking his shoulder with mine, making him shunt to one side.

He growled again, but this time did not draw up alongside me.

He trailed behind me as I rushed down one hallway after another.

Then, picking up on her tracks in the soft carpet once more, I followed her trail to the observation deck.

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