Chapter 23 – Sunlight and ShadowsPOV: Adrian

Two days. Two damn long, exhausting days of making sure every thread of her father’s pathetic schemes didn’t even whisper through my empire. My body ached, my eyes burned, and my mind was ragged, I came home exhausted, muscles screaming, mind spinning.

But today, the thought of home brought a complicated weight. Two days. Forty-eight hours of tracking every whisper of movement from my people, monitoring security feeds, confirming contacts, ...