Chapter 44: Under Attack

GRAY had become the only color I knew for years until Katriona splashed other colors into my life. Now, those colors were everywhere around me. If she were to leave this place, I might revert to my old self, knowing just one color.

Beautiful women were everywhere but women who possessed a heart and soul as tender as hers were rare.

Goddamn it. This was harder than going to war. I just started living again. And now, I would have to go back to being a breathing corpse again.

But Clyde’s word’s made sense. No matter how I denied it.

Katriona will live.

That was the only thing that should matter. She was too young to wither away like this just because she fell in love with a bastard like me. She was only twenty-three. There was so much about life and about the world waiting for her to experience.

I raised Katriona’s chin and stroked her cheeks with my fingers. “Princess, do you want to return to the city?”

She blinked. That was the first reaction I got from her for days.

I smiled even if