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CHAPTER 20
~Kael's POV~
"No!"
Our voices—mine and my brothers'—thundered through the hall like the crack of divine judgment. It wasn't just anger. It was instinct, a primal fury of wolves guarding what was ours—my mate.
The floor trembled beneath our combined auras. Plates clattered, glasses cracked. Servants hit their knees, gasping for air.
One of them passed out. The heat of our combined power rolled through the hall like a silent storm.
Yet Solaris didn't flinch.
The bastard smiled instead.
He rose slowly, as if we hadn't just threatened to tear him limb from limb. His gaze didn't even shift to us.
No—those damn mismatched eyes, glacial blue and violet flame, stayed locked on her.
Rhiannon.
My mate.
She sat calmly—too calmly—in the chair I'd just pulled out for her minutes ago, dressed like a vision born to haunt male fantasies.
That dress… the very one Solaris couldn't take his eyes off of.
"Mine," My wolf snarled.