Chapter 169

Kaidan's POV

The clash of steel and the stink of blood filled The Royal Keep compound, so thick it was hard to breathe. Smoke curled from The Royal Keep walls where fire had already scorched stone.

Shouts and growls filled the air, with guards and Huxley’s men tearing into each other, claws raking, blades slicing, teeth snapping. I barely knew where one fight ended and the next began, but my eye