Alaric

"This meeting is adjourned," I pressed on, and they all bowed in unity with a heavy heart.

I rose up from my throne, walking away while their silence crawled underneath my skin.

They won't leave until I'm out of sight and I gave them that room to gossip while maintaining a cold face.

Once I was away from the courtroom, I moved to the study room, knowing Dirna would be frustrated from waiting, but a king's duty had to be called.

While pacing around the corridors that make up the seventh ...