Roxxane's POV
An enemy is an enemy. They must be neutralized. Those are my father’s teachings. He forgives no one. I was twelve when he drilled that into Ronan and me in the training grounds. Ronan shifted uncomfortably during those lessons. He hated it. But I absorbed every word. Drank it in like it was water.
Except my father's a f*****g liar. He is evil, with what he did to Canan?
Took him as a boy. Used him. Broke him. Destroyed whatever innocence he had left after watching his parents being murdered. My father turned Canan into a monster, and for what? His own sick pleasure?
And then there's me.
When Marcus betrayed me, when my supposed mate faked our bond, f****d my half-sister behind my back, got her pregnant, and conspired to steal my crown. My father didn't neutralize the thr
