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Chapter 33

Author: Anne T. Thyssen
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

-Darius-

This party was not really how I wanted to spend my last day here. Acan and I had been busy preparing, and I was leaving tomorrow. Early in the morning, I would leave with the army Acan had assembled, going to other estates to pick up more men, and then we would be moving to the dark side of Adorna. It was not going to be a pretty battle, and I had no idea if we were going to survive it or if this was going to be a years-long war. Some wars dragged on, with no one ever emerging as the winner. I really didn’t want to spend years away from Katherine. It meant missing out on a lot of great time with her but also missing out on watching our child grow, and I didn’t want to miss that. I didn’t want them to look at me like I was a stranger because I was returning from years of war. I wanted them to know who their father was and that he would never willingly leave their side. I wanted to show them the love that my father struggled to show me. I knew he loved my mother, and I knew he
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