Donovan's POV

“Forgive us, your majesty. We have limited access to the lands because the council forbids us to enter the territory that does not belong to you,” Darwin, my third in command, reported to me after being away for one week.

I didn't like the news he brought from his travels. My eyebrows met and replied, “Haven't I told you to return when you have good news? Yet you came into my face with bad news!”

“But my king. We cannot oppose the council. I will lose half of ...