#Chapter 129: Bleeding Hearts

Kayla Nicholas’s face was set in a grimace as Jade carefully stitched up his wound. But more than anything, Nicholas was furious—furious about Gray and his two lackeys showing up here, on solstice no less, and we now had two hostages tied up in the cellar and a dead body out behind the cabin. “I never wanted to take hostages,” he growled, passing a hand over his face. “I led those two guild officers away on purpose rather than capturing them simply to avoid this.” I glanced at Nicholas. “Were the warriors that came with Gray just now the same ones as those you found the last time you were here?” Nicholas looked at me, and that was all the answer I needed. So they were the same men. Which meant that Gray hadn’t just come tonight to get revenge on us for making him lose his position on the guild; he had come for Grace. Emma shuddered. “What are we going to do now?” she asked quietly. Nicholas pursed his lips. “That’s exactly the issue. We can’t h