For a while, I didn’t say anything.
The wind moved quietly across the deck. Kade was still kneeling in front of me, waiting for my answer. Behind him, the men of the Ashen Fang Legion stood on their boats, watching.
The truth was simple.
I needed them.
When I left Velmore, I thought I could handle the Grayson family alone. I thought it would just be me against them.
But things had changed.
ILLVAR was now involved, and that made everything different.
I couldn’t do this alone anymore.
The military barracks I once commanded were no longer on my side either. Too many of them had already been bought by the Matriarch of the Grayson family—Selene Grayson.
If I wanted to fight her, I needed my own force.
And the Ashen Fang Legion was standing right in front of me.
I finally spoke.
“Kad
