“Your sister?” he asked in a cold voice.
“Yes. This is Missandra.”
The two of them didn’t say anything, staring at each other with a burning animosity between them. Cassandra wasn’t too comfortable about this situation, either. Her heart felt uncomfortable, and she turned to her Prince, trying to repress it.
“Can she stay with us for now?”
“Big sister, I don’t want to stay here! You should leave and leave that man!”
“Missandra, I promise you will be fine. But I am not leaving him.”
Kairen was surprised to hear the younger sister use another language, and even more surprised to hear Cassandra speak it back, just like Shareen had been. He looked down at Cassandra.
“What is it?”
“Let my sister go!” suddenly said Missandra, not hiding her anger.
Kairen replied with a glare, and his arm holding Cassandra a bit closer to him. He was judging her younger sister, so young but so fierce. Missandra was obviously terrified, but seeing Cassandra close to that man, she refused to back down.
“I don’t trust you to protect her; people like you made her a slave!”
“Missandra, my Lord is the one who freed me!”
“I won’t hurt her,” said Kairen, still glaring at Missandra.
Cassandra couldn’t tell if he was unhappy about her sister’s tone, or her thinking he would harm her, but his murderous glare was not lessening one bit while saying those words. She was terrified he would kill her if he ran out of patience, and put a hand on his torso, hoping to have him calm down.
“I’ll explain to her…Missandra, I promise, you can trust him.”
“Trust him?” whispered her sister in disbelief. “Trust him? The last man I ever saw you with, dragged you by your hair across our village to sell you! I am never entrusting my sister to any man again!”
The instant Missandra had let out those words, the War God’s eyes darkened, turning to Cassandra, furious.
“Who did that?”
“What?” asked Cassandra, confused.
“Who dragged you by your hair?”
She shook her head, baffled he had been angered by something that had happened to her long before he had even known her.
“I don’t remember, it was such a long time ago,” she said. “The men who raided our village and sold us. Calm down, please, it is not important right now.”
He kept himself from asking again, but Cassandra could tell by the look in his eyes, that the matter was far from over. She turned to her younger sister, who also seemed baffled. The War God’s reaction had obviously exceeded her expectations of him, leaving her confused.
“Missandra... stay for a few days at least, please? We have so much to catch up on, and I want to show you how safe and happy I feel with Kairen. Please?”
Though her sister seemed unsure, her eyes on Kairen had changed from a glare to a doubtful look.
“Fine. But I am not leaving your side.”
“That’s perfectly fine,” a voice said from behind them.
Looking as regal as ever, Kareen appeared, accompanied by two servants. Shareen, who was sulking behind her, immediately rolled her eyes.
“Princess Shareen, did you not go back to your apartments?” asked Cassandra.
“That was my plan, however, Mother had her people drag me here to explain what had happened.”
