Josiah’s P.O.V

“Now what in the h*ll was all that?!”

I wasn’t going to let Cora intimidate me again if she was going to marry Alois. I knew she was distraught at losing her power over me when I was swept away by the princes, but this was a new low. I was standing alone in a battlefield with opponents on all sides.

“And who are you to request my business, boy?” She sneered at me, and I had it in my right mind to punch her in the face. I ...