After Zade’s death, Father decided to put me in training. He sent the best mentors to train me. I worked really hard because I wanted to become the strongest warrior; perhaps then my mother would be proud and would want to see me again.

What I didn’t know was that my father expected something different from me. He didn’t need me to become a warrior. He needed me to be a killer.

When I was ten years old, King Sebastian started a program where he would allow ...