Princess Cromwell and Her Six Brothers
Blood gushed from the center of his forehead, streaming down his cheeks and mixing with the earlier froth, staining the oak table red.
The council chamber was as silent as death.
Cade, heir to the Cunningham family—a status far from ordinary—was, in Mystic Vale's eyes, nothing more than a dying ant, utterly insignificant.
Everyone kept their heads down, not daring to look at the gradually cooling corpse, much less at Mystic Vale's icy eyes. Their bodies trembled violently, a bone-deep terror washing over them like a tide.
They had already witnessed Mystic Vale's methods before, and encountering them again brought the same fear.