“Then you’d be the first innately kind person I’ve known in a long time.”
“Oh? Who was it before?”
Jackson. Was the immediate answer.
“Someone I thought I knew. Turns out, I was wrong.”
“What happened?”
“He killed my family.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
Maybe because he wanted me? But that made no sense because I was already promised to him.
I didn’t really know why he’d done it.
That wasn’t something I liked thinking about. Because realizing that he might’ve killed everyone I knew for no other reason than because he felt like it, was terrifying.
I’d thought we were all like a large family.
I was wrong.
How could he do that to us?
In all reality, it hadn’t benefitted him.
It had taken him from being successor to the throne to Commander of an Army.
But he’d always said
