Chapter 276

Leonardo had been trailing Isotta and Marinella by barely half an hour when he first sensed the raw jolt of fear cutting into his mind and heart. Neither of us could tell if this was some side effect of our bond as true-mates, but it woke him in the dead of night, a piercing alarm he couldn’t shake. He tried to connect with my every emotion but couldn’t grasp all of them fully. He reached the Water Court’s borders just thirty minutes after Isotta and Marinella had crossed over, dragging me along with them. A dozen warriors—men and women with skin as pale as moonlight and hair like winter frost—halted him at the edge, awaiting Isotta and Marinella’s arrival.