#Chapter 68: Fight For Answers

XADEN POV Back to the present day, the morning following the banquet… Morning had finally come, bringing an end to that ridiculously long banquet, and I wasted no time in hurrying over to the palace training room. My body thrummed with pent-up tension, threatening to burst if left unattended. It had been a good while since my last training session and, after the tumultuous events of the previous day, I’d figured there was no better time like the present. I was ready to destroy something. Cover the training room with blood and tears if that was what it took to calm myself down. I was not jealous. Far from it. I descended from the greatest alpha bloodline in the entire damn kingdom. But hearing that scoundrel Nicholas speak so boldly about Maeve like that… did things to me. The urge to claim her, to make her mine was all-consuming. Almost unbearable. It was like I was in heat without losing complete control of myself. However, seeing the fear that lingered in her eyes… f