Amanda's POV I stood in the rose garden, tending, pruning and watering the flowers, it had become my favourite pastime since the death of my husband, the grief and the loneliness that his death had imposed upon me had not been made easier in the slightest by the fact that Henry had abdicated his duties and chosen to leave me here alone with his younger brother whom he was well aware was not prepared by any means to take up the weight of such responsibilities. I was disappointed with his choices, this was certainly not what I had been expecting from the firstborn son of my family, there were no excuses as he had been groomed properly by his father before his painful demise, raised properly in the way of the wolf, the way of the clan, the way of the pack. If my husband was to be made aware

