The date of Balthazar Riverwalker’s birthday banquet and hunt was quickly approaching. Layla split her focus from Cassias’ recovery to preparing for the banquet. Alistar was dead to her.

He tried to talk to her but she would turn away. He tried to hold her hand and she would move her hand away. She replaced Javier with one of her father’s men and forbade Alistar from her room. The tension between the two was felt by every member of the household. Life had become a series ...