Page 55 of Knight’s Dominion

“I am not twitchy.”

“Tell me your leg’s not jiggling under the table as we speak.”

Grace stilled her leg, heat crawling up her neck.

Chaya chuckled.

“Seriously, sometimes I think you’re a witch.”

“Nope, but your emotions are all over the place. Reading them is actually making me dizzy to the point of nausea…also horny. It’s a freaking odd mix.”

“I’m making you want to puke and fuck?”

“Yep. So spill already before shit gets messy.”

There was no hiding from Chaya, maybe that’s why she came here, because she’d be forced to talk about it with someone. Instead of bottling it up inside.

That’s exactly why you came here, and you know it.

Grace released the breath she was holding. “I wanted to ask you something about Mia.”

Chaya frowned and sat up straighter. “What about her?”

Grace forced herself to continue. She hadn’t gone to Chaos with this because it would only give him the wrong idea, same with asking Mia directly. She still wasn’t sure what she planned to do with the information if the answer Chaya gave her was what she thought it was going to be. “Her power, did it increase after she mated Zenon?”

Wariness rearranged Chaya’s features. “Why do you ask? You know there’s no way Zenon will let her fight.”

“It’s not that.”

Chaya leaned forward. “Then what?”

Grace cursed. “Chaos is my…mate…”

“What?” Chaya shrieked.

“We’re not mated,” she rushed out. “I don’t want that, I really don’t want that. But I guess I wanted to know what I’m missing out on?” There was more to it than that, but she wasn’t ready to think it, let alone voice it yet.

Chaya frowned. “What you’re missing out on? Have you seen Zenon and Mia together?”

Grace shook her head. But the knight made sure everyone knew Mia was his. He had her name tattooed in bright blue on his stomach.

“Mia is literally everything to Zenon. Everything. And he is everything to her. Her power’s the reason he’s still alive. No joke. The connection between mates reaches levels the rest of us will never understand. In Mia and Zenon’s case, being together was literally vital to his survival. If you mate with a knight, there’s more, there’s always more.”

Grace swallowed hard, heart racing.

“But to answer your actual question? Yes, her power grew stronger. Like whoa stronger. Honestly, I can’t see a negative. Why the hell would you resist it?”

Grace curled her fingers around her glass. “I just…it’s not for me.”

Chaya’s gaze softened, her head tilting to the side, no doubt reading her volatile emotions again. “Okay, but I’m here if you ever need to talk.”

The small house on the outskirts of Roxburgh was fucking grim, the kind of house the local kids avoided in a horror movie. The only light source came from a single streetlight halfway down the block and a small bulb burning above the back door.

Mark and Laney took the right, and Grace and James took the left. The remaining members of her crew had surrounded the place and were waiting for Chaos's signal to move in.

Zenon was by the back door, and he glanced up a moment before Chaos landed lightly at his side. They were talking, but it was too dark to read their lips.

Then Chaos turned her way, somehow finding her among her people concealed in the shadows. His dark gaze locked on her and he shook his head.