The Prince’s Bargain (The Elves of Lessa #3)

M yth felt hands on her shoulders, and she was roughly yanked backwards. She tried to yell a warning, but someone was already pushing the doors shut. Arvel, his daggers out, barely slipped through before a man slammed the doors into place.

The crown prince chopped the side of his hand into the man’s throat, toppling him, then tried to open a door. Two more men were on him in an instant, lunging at him with short swords as a third man slipped a timber of wood through the door handles, barring it shut.

The doors shook—presumably as Thad and his Honor Guards rammed into them.

Arvel tried to kick the timber out of place, but his assailants were keeping him too busy.