Chapter Twenty-Two
Ric
Ric marched through the palace courtyard, aware of his two guards tailing him. They hadn’t been happy when he ditched them to leave the palace. Usually, even as the prince, Ric didn’t need a constant guard presence in his own home. If his father had known about the a***e he took from the other palace children when he was younger, that would have been different. They made a sport of testing their magic on him. He remembered certain instances so clearly. One of the boys lifted him into the air with a flick of his finger and tossed him onto one of the high parapets. An older girl used her magic to move stones to help him down.
But now he was no longer the boy prince, instead taking on a role in the running of the kingdom, and they chose to ignore him instead.
He did
