Gavriel Sterling was walking back from the healer's ward with an ice pack pressed to his jaw, the split lip from Dexmon's knuckles still tender under his tongue.
He turned the corner into the main corridor.
Two Drakenfell guards, with the bruised, thousand-yard look of men who had recently survived a combat tour, were escorting a fully nude woman in manacles.
He stopped.
"That is a new one," he said pleasantly, to the nearest guard. "What did she do."
"Bit the crown prince, Gamma. And the Beta. Among other colorful crimes, I am told."
"Why is she nude."
"She stripped while she was chasing the crown prince."
"What do you mean chasing the crown prince."
"Not my place to say, Gamma."
Gav touched his jaw, running the math. Dex punched him for kissing Serena, then was being chased by a naked woman.
He reached for his wolf who had been silent since the kiss.
Gav: If Dex cheated on Serena after punching me in the jaw. I will kick his ass.
