Nico has Katya's hands while they’re patrolling all the borders of the sss land. He notices his wife seems to have a lot on her mind and her shield is blocking him. Nico signals Felix, Zell, and the others go on ahead of them and pulls her into him. Nico lifts her face with her chin, “Princess don’t say nothing is wrong. Hell even with your shield up I know your mind is heavy.” He looks at the tears flowing down her cheeks.
Katya’s rambling about having all these weird emotions and she doesn’t know what’s happening to her. She and Seraya felt Ernie and his wolf’s pain when he was dying and he told her he loved her. Katya wipes some tears off. “What is happening to me?”
“How in the hell did you feel that bastard's pain? That sounds like mate pain. Oh hell no. What the hell did he mea
