57. Legacy

Arshar Ishtu

I returned home thoughtful and confused. Somehow, all these years, I imagined my future differently. Reunion with my daughter and revenge on Irma looked completely different in my mind. In fact, I didn’t even want to think and talk about it. Why do I need power, wealth, a lot of problems if I'm alone again?

However, a tiny hope still flickered in my chest. Adaria was four years away from coming of age. It was in my power to make her life at the boarding school easier and teach her everything that I knew myself.

Leysar belonged to her. Someday it will be my daughter who...