The king of Ashes
This was my world now, a kingdom built not on love or hope, but on cold, hard data and absolute control.
My men moved around me with a new, quiet tension, their footsteps soft on the marble floor, their voices low and respectful, their eyes carefully avoiding mine, they saw the change in me, the return of the man they had served for ten years, the King of Ashes, the ruler whose heart was a frozen void.
The brief spring, the fleeting warmth Isabella had brought, was over, and the long, cold winter had returned.
Hot Chapters