27. Here

Silvan’s POV

Whatever Esme was keeping from me couldn’t be good and I forced myself to focus on the ride back home.

I had rushed down here from the council meeting because I wanted to take her out. If I wanted her to feel welcome here, I had to first make her love where she was.

However, seeing her mood now, I could tell that something had happened back in the academy.

And some trip around my empire was not going to make her feel better.

“Do you like the school? If you don’t…” I didn’t mind training her by myself.

Besides, when it came to fighting in our human form, only the trained men in the empire could come close to Esme.

I had watched her fight more than once. Watched her take down her father after one year of training her.

That was the first thing that had made me suspect them back then.

Other than the pull, I had noticed how hard she trained.

Like her life depended on it.

Although she hid it quite well, her father had easily revealed everything as soon as I defeated him