Katherine’s POV
The nightmare came again.
My father’s voice yelling at me to run, the screams from every direction, the smell of blood everywhere and fire burning our whole land down. My sister calling for me before the flames swallowed her. My father falling with arrows in his chest while I stood there useless and shaking. Stephen’s soldiers destroying everything that ever mattered to me.
I shot up in bed, breathing hard. I pressed my hand against my chest because the pain was still there. It never left. It just waited for me to close my eyes.
I sat for a while, staring at the wall, letting the hate burn steady inside me. I promised myself again that I wouldn’t forget, that I would find a way to make Stephen pay, even if it took everything from me. I owed my father that much. I owed e
