“We need to speak alone.”

Those words echoed across the vast chambers of the throne room, and Aria froze.

She blinked, a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. She was amused, not only by her father’s pride, but by his arrogance.

Of all the things she had expected the man who had abandoned her to say, it definitely wasn’t that. The fact that he felt that he even had the right to demand a private meeting with her directly told her how he felt about his actions over the years. ...