Thorne’s P.O.V

No one had dared speak against me ever since I founded the Rogue Kingdom. They knew that speaking against my word or order meant death for them. But, the council of elders was here, ranting, and as much as I was seething with rage, I couldn’t say a single word.

As if Asher’s death wasn’t worse, five different men were found dead and their bodies were disfigured just in the same way as Asher’s. Silver. They had all consumed a silver poison.

At first, I had thought that Asher’s death was due to suicide—I mean everything was confusing. In the note that he had left, he had written...