Sage Pov The way he spoke made an impression on me. The teasing, annoying man that fell through the portal and landed on top of me was nowhere to be found as this new Rhys stared me in the eyes. I wasn’t really sure what to do, what to say…I wasn’t sure how to breathe with his eyes looking at me like that. Once again, I was left opening and closing my mouth like a fish out of water. I was trying to understand how the man that was so childish one minute sounded like…a king. Then I remembered that he said the Shifter protector, Jaiden Creed, was his father. Jaiden Creed was the first Shifter king. There wasn’t really a timeline of who took over afterward, the scrolls really were mostly just documenting the final war and the stories of the beginning, how the species were born. If Jaiden was