Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 621: Threat To The Princess

Hannah sprinted across the open courtyard and ducked behind the stone deck beneath a lion statue, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it would leap out of her chest.

She crouched low, gasping for air, eyes roving around in fear.

Coming here was a mistake.

She had tried to infiltrate the palace to find Violet, but it was impossible. The place was massive with endless halls, twisting corridors, and strange turns that led her nowhere. The eerie part was that there were barely any guards. Not even one. No palace this grand could ever be this unprotected. Something was wrong. Terribly wrong.

And she was too exposed.

Hannah pulled out her compact mirror and whispered, "Soror vocat te."

But nothing happened. The surface stayed smooth and still, only her pale reflection staring back.

Her pulse quickened, and she checked the back of the mirror to be sure it was the right one. It was. So why wasn’t it responding?

Come to think of it, she hasn’t felt the hot itch beneath her skin. It was unlike Hannah not to have contacted her for this while. It couldn’t be.....

The blood drained from Hannah’s face, not just because it dawned on her that by crossing the Fae realm, the magic in this place must have canceled out Ziva’s powers, but because the statue of the lion was staring at her.

Cold sweat broke down her spine. She could have sworn it was facing forward when she arrived. Maybe her mind was playing tricks. Maybe....

The lion’s eyes glowed red.

At first, she thought it was a ruby catching the light, but when that glow blinked with awareness, Hannah’s stomach twisted.

hissed, spinning on

gleamed white and spectral, and with a thunderous growl,

as her legs could carry her, the ground shaking under the thunderous steps of the beast

through the air like thunder, and

known this was how things would turn out, she would have never stepped

had given her. Her only chance now was to turn invisible. So she pressed it, and urgently whispered the

The lion kept coming.

turned against her, a thick vine shot up and wrapped around her ankle, tripping her flat. The impact knocked

her eyes shut, bracing

and her whole body trembled. Hannah swore her soul almost fled her body from the sheer force

enough, Taryn." calmly said a voice

Hannah the courage to crack one eye

the young

youth like a disguise. Still, she recognized Violet’s old roommate from the human realm, the same one

"You didn’t actually think a human, or rather, a hybrid, would pass through our gates unnoticed, did you?" She

sighed in resignation. She

turned just in time to see the lion vanish, and was replaced by possibly the

his long, silky silver hair that spilled past his shoulders all the way down to his waist. How could a man have this

wasn’t

her gaze moved to his pointed ears, each one adorned with delicate loops

was startling to realize the Fae had their own shifters too, and this one was

all smooth strength and sculpted muscle. She could feel the dominant, commanding aura