Brecc shoved him hard. Alyx lost the fight with his lion. Bones snapped, and the shift slid through him, heating him from the inside.
TWENTY
“He’s going to kill him,” Bella screamed. She watched in awe as Trey or Alyx or whatever his real name was shifted into a big-as-hell lion.
He stretched to about nine or ten feet and had paws the size of Bella’s head. Alyx was massive.
“He won’t kill him,” Karel said. “He’ll probably bite off an arm.”
She glared at him. Had everyone lost their minds all of a sudden? “Right. Because biting off anything is a good idea.”
“He shouldn’t have taken you from the castle.” Karel shrugged.
She watched the massive lion leap for the huge, white wolf. They were not evenly matched at all. While the wolf was huge, the lion was twice his size, easily.
“Trey, stop!”
“Alyx, dear,” Gerri said.
She turned to glare at her boss. “You knew?”
Gerri shrugged. “He’s your Alion. Yours. We can talk about that later. Right now, I think you might want to stop him from killing my next client.”
Great. What the fuck did she look like? The lion whisperer?
The two animals wrangled back and forth, breaking every piece of furniture in their path. Once she saw an opening, she jumped between them and screamed at the top of her lungs. “Stop!”
The lion and the wolf separated, each giving the other space and moving away to keep her between them without allowing her to get hurt.
She turned to face the wolf. “Stay right there, Brecc. I know you’re big and strong, but you and I both know you don’t want to fight. If you did, someone would be bleeding. This is your king. What you did was wrong, but I forgive you, and I’m the one you took from that castle.”#p#分页标题#e#
She heard a low growl from behind and turned on her heel to glare at the lion—a lion bigger than her. “That’s right. I forgive them for bringing me here. They didn’t mean any harm. They wanted help.” She glanced at Gerri. “Help we are going to give them, as soon as possible.” She pursed her lips and stared deep into the lion’s golden gaze. “You think you can come here and try to save me and things are going to be perfect? You lied to me.” She glanced down at her hands and then back at the animal. “I appreciate you coming here to help, but as far as we’re concerned, I don’t know who you are.”
* * *
Bella fought with the material one more time before giving up and throwing it across the room. Screw it. She put on a pair of leggings and a tank top. She’d been sitting in her room, unwilling to talk to Alyx, for too long. Someone knocked at the door, and she growled for them to enter.
Gerri walked in with her brows raised high. “I won’t ask if you’re okay. I can tell you’re not.”
“The growl gave it away?” She sat and let her shoulders slump.
“Not just the growl. The anger and disappointment is like a blanket at your door. It hurts me to know you’re not happy right now, Bella.”
She shook her head. “It’s not your fault Alyx turned out to be a liar.”
Gerri nodded and pulled up a chair to sit across from Bella. “You asked me if I knew. Yes, I knew.”
“Why didn’t you say something?”
“I’ll explain something nobody knows about my matchmaking. When Karel called on Alyx’s behalf, the image of you two popped into my head. I knew then that this was the place for you. That somehow, some way, you’d end up with him.”
“So you’re saying I should forgive him?” She didn’t like the idea of just letting go of the fact he lied.
“Oh, no. I’m not saying that at all.” Gerri patted her hands and smiled. “You and Alyx are going to be together. You’ll have to go through whatever you go through, but at the end of the day, you are his and he is yours. Nothing will change that.”
That deflated her anger by leaps. No way was she just going to let him slide on the lying. This had to be addressed.
“You’re right. I love him.” She widened her eyes and stared at Gerri in shock. “I love the lying lion.” She giggled at how stupid that sounded.
“It’s going to be fine, Bella.” Gerri’s eyes twinkled with mirth. “Trust your instincts.”
* * *
Bella stormed into the library. Alyx and Karel were in deep discussion with two other men. She folded her arms over her chest and raised a brow.
“We’ll be back later,” Karel said, ushering the others out of the library. “Nice seeing you, Bella.”