DAMON’S POV
Weeks… That’s how long it took for everything to start slipping. It wasn’t the throne, nor the title that had been bestowed on me… that was still mine and no one was going to take it from me, that I was certain of. But it was everything else, the control, focus and the discipline, it was all gone and I could barely focus on anything else
“Your attention is elsewhere.”
I didn’t look up…I didn’t want to and didn’t have the energy to. The elder’s voice echoed through the chamber, layered with quiet disapproval, but I had stopped caring about that days ago.
“I have handled what matters,” I said.
“You have neglected what matters.”
I didn’t respond to his accusation…my jaw tightened not because I was angered buy what he was saying to me but because deep down I knew that there w
