Aelfred As soon as I said the words, her shoulders slumped, and her body slumped back on the edge of the bed. Her gaze was down, and I could see her shoulders trembling with her silent sobs. "Little Flower, please... it hurts me to see you like this," I knelt in front of her. She is my queen; she owns me, and seeing her like that devastates me to the core. "Seeing me like what? Aelfred?" she lifted her eyebrows defiantly. She was upset, and I could see the thunder outside her window. "Storm, please control your anger..." I sighed, and she looked at me with fire in her eyes and a hurricane of rage coursing through her entire being. "What? Too afraid of the consequences? Of the devastation that I could bestow upon your precious castle? Maybe afraid that my storm could harm your new

