Arsalan pushed the door shut in the messenger's face and faced the woman who had a lot of explaining to do. Stephanie crept backwards. All of a sudden, she became scared of the person she loved and trusted above all. Maybe it was the way he raised his shoulders or peered at her. "Tell me that I heard wrong," his voice was two steps deeper. Stephanie swallowed her spit, looking for her thick face to overturn Arsalan's commanding temperament. To save the situation, she opened up about the incident that led to her earning that position. Her husband went back and forth, whipping his hands in the air where words fell short. Arsalan was too stunned to bother taking off his mask. He did not support any of her decisions, he abhorred them.
"I can't say I didn't know you'd be upset, but it just hap
