*Ryatt*

“She tells me how much she hates you every day during training,” Westfall says as we walk along one of the bridges at night, ten days after I tore Ella’s heart in half in the dining hall.

I’ve just arrived in Veiled Valley after a week-long journey to the Roguelands to check on my commanders and generals and to make sure Alpha Magnus of Granite Rise didn’t string Granger up by his neck in a tree for what he did to Princess Amanda.

“Everything she does is in spite of you,” he continues when I don’t reply.

“I can’t say I don’t deserve whatever she’s saying.”

“She has a...