Chapter 49

The next day...

Staring at the small container in his hand, his heart wrenches in pain as anger spurs through him. This is the poison that he has been taking all this while.

"Where did you say you got it from again?" Trying hard not to believe the guard, he asks him again. How can he say that he found it in Cassie's room? How's that even possible? How's he supposed to believe that?

"My lord, in maiden Cassie's room," Hearing this again, he bites his bottom lip and takes a deep breath, trying so hard to control this anger that keeps trying to consume him. He refuses...