Blood dripped down his jaws and onto the cold ground beneath him, the chains and shackles restrained his limbs, his wings, his neck, and every single part of his body that he could move.
Flamebane dripped onto his back from somewhere above him, making sure to keep him weak at all costs as his breaths heaved heavily and his heart struggled to keep him alive.
He didn’t know how long it had been. He didn’t know how much longer he was going to stay here. Or how he was going to get himself out.
Had his kingdom perished already?
No. He stopped himself from that chain of thoughts. He could not allow it. He knew that he had to believe in her.
Seraphina.
The woman for whom he would gladly do anything. The woman he loved with all his heart and all his soul. The woman he would fight the w
