Kael
"If you ever talk to me like that again, I'm going to cut your hands off."
The words left his mouth before he could stop them. Isolde flinched, her whole body shuddering. He could see that the words hurt her. And he didn't care.
He told himself he didn't care. He would make his words a reality if she ever spoke to him that way.
Kael clenched his jaw. The reaction twisted something deep in his chest, something he didn’t want to name though.
Caleb must have threatened her like that all the time. Maybe worse. He should take it back, soften it, but he couldn't. She needed to hate him.
"You’ll stop being a maid," he said instead, forcing his voice back to normal. "You’ll work with the soldiers in the morning. You’ll heal them after all their training sessions. And if we have any c
