Chapter Fourteen
“Are you sure this is the only way, your Majesty?” The intensity of Ara’s gaze was blinding.
Over the past few days, Etta had come to appreciate the quiet company of the General. She’d grown up as the bastard daughter of a duke–his only child with magic. Even with an accepting man like Duke Caron, that wouldn’t have been an easy life in Gaule.
Discrimination based on magic was not allowed on Caron’s lands, but that didn’t mean it didn’t exist.
Which was why they were in that place on that day, hovering near the line where two ancient kingdoms met. They stood in the shadow of the mountains where La Dame lay waiting behind her walls.
Alex sent his best riders into every corner of the kingdom. Their message? Leave. Get your families to safety. It was time to erect the wa
