Chapter 5
ERIK
I’d been called into a meeting with the elders, and I was so out of my depth I could barely breathe.
Important matters were being discussed. Matters of state, matters that I had to attend to now, as the king.
I couldn’t concentrate on any of it for a single, stupid reason.
I felt underdressed in my own damned Council meeting.
I eyed the thick gold chain that hung around the neck of Elder Kilgrave. It glinted as he turned, winking at me as if to say, look at all this finery. Where’s yours, boy?
That chain could have fed my mother and me for a year. Longer, probably. The elder caught my eye, raising his brow, and I flushed, glaring down at the table.
It wasn’t that I wanted a similar decoration for myself. I couldn’t imagine anything worse than parading around in such
