Ruin Me, Alpha Step-Daddy
"But you know exactly what will happen to this territory if that beast who killed your first wife steps up to claim the vacancy. If you die without an heir, the succession laws automatically hand him the throne. Everything we built, everything we protected... doomed."
The mention of her tore open the raw, jagged wound I kept buried beneath layers of ice. A cold, violent aura flared from my skin, sudden and sharp enough to make the glass jars on the medical shelves rattle against one another. I didn't say her name. I couldn't. I simply took a slow, deliberate drag of my freshly lit cigar, letting the harsh smoke burn my throat, forcing the darkness back into the shadows.
"I have it under cont