Eldric’s POV

I walked back to the palace hand in hand with Lyanna, desperate to never let her go, since I didn’t want her to disappear again like the mistake I made that time. My subjects kept glancing at us as we passed by, but I couldn’t be bothered by them. I had Lyanna by my side; that was all that mattered.

“Why do I feel like all your subjects fear you more than the last time I was here?” she whispered as we walked through the corridor, and I panicked, while Ryder grunted in ...