Oli had thought they would have to fight. They would have to brandish their way into the royal palace and fight for their life to get their empire back.
Cedric was gone but he was the one holding the crown and his family would try to claim it. But… she could have never been so wrong.
As they marched to the capital to get the crown back, many families, commoners, rebels, nobles, and men that used to hold authorities joined her march.
They followed her silently without a word but their haggard state spoke volumes. Their gaunt faces, injured or scarred body and their haunted eyes showed what they have faced. But when they met her eyes, they only had devotion and hope in them.
Hopes which gnaw her heart. While she had been living freely and fooling around with Alex.. they were fighting with their lives and suffering enough to die yet they persisted for her, for their empire and for a better life and she would give it to them.
