Everyone knew why he had been banished. Such a question was not worth replying to, but she didn’t want him to withdraw. “Your father was a mad King… in one of his rages, he killed my mother, that was when my father could take it no longer and deposed him…you were banished as punishment for your family’s evil,” she whispered. Castian gave a sharp, humorless laugh, nodding slowly. Chrystal could taste the bile on his tongue in her own mouth. Goddess! What is this bond?! She mused as she forced her mind to focus. “Mad! That’s what they all say,” he replied bitterly. “My father was poisoned, by YOUR rebellious, greedy, wretch of wolf that you all hold in such high esteem!” he replied coldly, his eyes narrowing. “Everything that happened to your mother, to the Kingdom, was done by your

