73: In Danger

Leila’s POV

Again, I’d failed.

As though it wasn't enough that Cora had all the men in the land hooked by their balls, she also seemed to be untouchable no matter what potions or spells I spun to deal with her. There was no one that had ever contended with the potency of my spells and survived, but she always seemed to come out unscathed.

I’d just come from Kai’s chambers after our usual morning work sessions and on the way back to my room all I heard from the guards were whispers about Cora’s alluring body and how they’d been lucky to be chosen for guard duties on the day of the feast.

Some of them even wished that there were the ones that had been chosen to touch her even if it meant that they would be killed afterward because it seemed liked a befitting way to die. I was so damn infuriated that I yelled at them to shut their traps before I stormed off to my room.

What pissed me off the most was that I was the one whose body they ogled and wished that they’d be granted access to bef