Sienna's Pov

I was in the garden when it happened. The afternoon sun was warm on my skin and I was picking flowers like the servants told me to do to keep busy. Rafe was supposed to be in a meeting with the council guards. Something about border patrols. I heard the shouts first, it was loud and angry. Then metal clanging. Then a scream that was not human.

I dropped the flowers and ran toward the main hall. Guards were everywhere, blood on the floor. One man down, another fighting with a knife. Rafe was in the middle of it all, he had blood on his side. A deep...