CHAPTER ELEVEN
Adamar stood in front of his bedroom window, staring out at the sprawling city of Oakhaven. He was feeling good today despite the previous night’s mishap. Watching the people below go about their daily lives, he told himself that they were beginning to love him.
He’d been hard on everyone initially, but for good reason. They were used to the weakness of his father. The man had essentially let the nobles run the kingdom. They needed to see that he was not weak like his father. And so he had been forceful with many of the nobles to show his dominance.
He didn’t turn around when he heard the servants enter his chamber. They were there to set up his extravagant breakfast. Now that he was king, he dined on sumptuous food, had more gold than he could spend, and lived in a magni
