Kora’s POV
For some reason, I was drawn to the shelf with the books about Winter Harvest sitting on it. Perhaps it was because everyone in the four kingdoms was talking about how Knox Toprak and Aira Caldwell were mates but had been unable to make a good match.
It left me somewhat depressed, for some reason.
My brother came wandering into the library with one of his most odious advisors, Alpha Vayu, both of them laughing their heads off.
“Oh, to see Knox’s face!” Abel said, slapping his thigh and shaking with deep, rolling chuckles.
“It was a picture, Your Highness,” Alpha Vayu agreed. “Thinking he was getting timber for so little. Who cares about those peons in the smaller kingdoms? If they couldn’t provide for them, maybe they should have thought twice before taking them in.”
“What
