Malakai
As soon as those words left my lips, I regretted them. It took everything in me not to refute that statement. I avoided Wulfgar's concerned gaze. He was studying me for some reason I couldn't understand.
“You have a history with this girl, right?”
I shrugged. We were both young and stupid, but she made my time as a cousin to the royal kid bearable. The Elders knew I was a hybrid; everyone knew, and they avoided me like a plague.
Though she knew I wasn't normal like her and her friends, yet she treated me like I was one of them. Her parents welcomed me with open arms…
They didn't judge me.
It was like any other day; I decided to prove myself capable of the throne. Truly, that war unleashed respect for me across the land.
And that was when I made the decree.
No more talk a
