Darcy
“Let’s go get my mother,” I say to my grandparents and then look at the gathered people. It’s well after midnight. I step towards the edge of the balcony again. “Go home. I swear that everything will be okay,” I say to them.
People begin to disperse while Duke Roderick walks up to me with several guards. Nathaniel growls while my grandparents and the others with us tense up. The duke holds up his hands. “Peace,” He says and looks at me. He and the guards all bow to me.
“I know you all liked King Leonidas, but he is to remain locked up,” I order.
“We didn’t like him,” the duke says, surprising me. “I mean, he treated most of the kingdom well. But we knew about him trafficking the elementals and other shifters. I never agreed with it. You are the hope we all waited for. It was fo
