Chapter 41

AUTHOR’S POV

The King was right and his Beta General was wrong. Kaiden’s name had been the first thing Odessa called out for as she regained consciousness.

When she’d asked after the King who had risked his life to save her, Odessa felt disappointed when she was told that he wasn’t in the hospital. At first, she’d thought he was too busy to come see her or was distancing himself again like she’d asked him to but she quickly realized that he wasn’t in the Kingdom at all.

She asked Evelyn when she didn’t catch a sight of his shadow at all within three days of her recovery. If he was truly avoiding her, then Odessa thought he was doing a good job at it.

Sadness filled her heart when she heard that he’d gone to war. Loneliness filled her soul for months as she waited for him to come back to her.

Evelyn and Mitchell filled her in on the things that had happened in her absence, how her body had reacted on collecting the King’s blood, how the King broke down the temple.

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