The King's Obsession
"My father was a brutal, merciless man. He didn't see his children as family, he saw us as soldiers. When I was fourteen, he dropped me in the middle of a rival territory with nothing but a knife and told me if I didn't make it back by dawn, I wasn't worthy of his name."
My breath hitched in my throat. I looked at the sharp, flawless angles of his face, suddenly seeing the invisible scars beneath the polished surface.
"I survived," Karlo continued, his eyes darkening as if he were looking at the ghosts of his past. "But to secure this throne, to keep my sister Sophie safe, I had to become worse than the monsters who hunted us. I had to kill my own uncle when he tried to poison my mother. I h