Kingdom of Ash

Aelin had felt the arrow he’d received
during the fight with Manon at Temis’s
temple. Or enough of a jolt that she’d known,
in that moment, that they were mates.
Yet he hadn’t felt anything at all that day
on the beach.
He had a feeling he knew the answer. Knew
that Maeve was likely the cause of it, the
damper on what was between them. She’d
gone into his head to trick him into thinking
Lyria was his mate, had fooled the very
instincts that made him a Fae male. It
wouldn’t be beyond her powers to find a way
to stifle what was between him and Aelin, to
keep him from knowing that she’d been in
such danger, and now to keep him from
finding her.
But he should have known. About Aelin.
Shouldn’t have waited to get the wyverns and
the others. Should have flown right to the