Mark by Destiny.
And the white-haired man, lean and sharp, had a beauty almost otherworldly, his eyes like shards of ice.
And yet none commanded the clearing like the silver-haired man.
He stood at the center, calm, collected, the moonlight glinting off his hair and the hard planes of his face. His golden eyes swept over the freed slaves, not with pity, not with contempt, but with something far …heavier judgment.
For a long, tense moment, no one dared breathe.
Then, at last, he spoke. His voice carried like thunder through the silence.
“You are free now. But freedom means nothing if you do not know what to do with it.” His gaze lingered on Liora, burning, searing. “Especially you.”