Astra's POV My mouth snared open like a whale's belly as I yawned for the 100th time this night. An old saying says, there is no peace for the wicked and I think I was one of the wicked. Ever since the supreme assembly, I haven't properly slept. Leadership wasn't ice cream and chips neither is it chips and ketchup and that's why people like Arianna who thought they could probably do better baffled me. Just because I was determined to pull Trent down, to make him pay every dime of what he'd cost me, didn't mean my empire would suffer. I was a wicked ruler not an incompetent one. My eyes followed the documents sprawled out across my table, I still had a long way to go. I was exhausted, my hands limped beside me, I threw my head back, over the arm chair as if that would give me strength. A knock on the door startled me slightly, “Come
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