I couldn't sleep that night. The wine that was poisoned on the table still sat on my mind. It was playing over and over again like something I couldn't erase.
I had built my estate to be impenetrable and yet, twice. Twice now, someone had managed to get close to harming her.
I was up till dawn. I watched as wolves began their training as they did every morning.
It should have been reassuring.
It wasn’t.
Because none of it mattered if I couldn’t protect what was inside my own walls.
I couldn't keep them away from her twice.
I turned away from the window, already knowing what needed to be done.
Protection alone wasn’t enough. At that point, it wasn't.
I had learned that the hard way… in another life. And somehow even with that, I had been relaxed for too long.
If Roslyn was going
