Darius’s POV
Rayn Augustus, the Elder Council’s golden boy.
I should have figured out he was the one pulling the strings behind the Tribunal, but I’d been too busy holding the kingdom together and keeping Estella safe to notice his petty little games. Like the rest of his family, everything about him reeked of calculation. And the way he looked at Estella made my wolf want to rip his throat out.
“What the hell were you thinking, interfering like that?” Estella hissed. “I had everything under control!”
Control.
The world almost made me laugh. She didn’t understand how difficult it was to keep anything under control when the world kept taking things from you.
“Do you still intend to go to the battlefield?” I demanded icily.
She raised her chin, glaring in defiance.
“Yes.”
That sin
