Chapter 78: Banquet

Hunter

I dismissed May with a punishment to attend to Lena and her friend. Truthfully, it was just an excuse to postpone meeting with Lena face to face. I had no idea how to break the news to her that she was betrothed to me without earning her hatred. The whole situation was a mess.

I was still pissed about everything, so I took my frustrations out on the remaining Valor soldiers we had captured during the raid. After a week of interrogations and negotiations, we successfully sent them all back with a warning, but it did little to improve my black mood.

I couldn't avoid meeting Lena forever. But I was still seething over the fact that Lord Frost had gotten to her first and even gotten her pregnant. I was a jealous man by nature when it came to what I considered rightfully mine. So that night I consulted my second-in-command, Jack, over drinks in the officer's lounge.

"She's carrying that bastard's child, can you believe it?" I growled, slamming my glass down.

Jack just shook his s