Chapter 0724

My father's voice trailed off at that point. He dropped his head a bit, as though the memories pained him to recount.

"We shared secrets with one another," he said. "Secrets that no one else—not even your mother, Nina-ever discovered."

"But it all went south, didn't it?" Enzo whispered.

Aldric nodded slowly. "Mila had a small tribe of her kin; the last of her kind. It was my job to protect them in exchange for Mila's expertise. And I failed."

Mila burst into Aldric's chambers, the doors swinging outwards in front of her. Her hair was wild, and her eyes glowed like two emeralds. Aldric had gotten used to the dragon's frazzled appearance, and he went to wave her away.

"I'll speak with you in a moment"

"No." She stormed forward and slammed her fists on the table, causing Aldric's werewolf council to jump in unison. Fire flickered on her fingertips; without a word, the others got up and scurried out of the room in fear of the dragon's strength.

alone. Another one of Mila's episodes, perhaps, he thought. But no-when he saw the tears in her

Aldric had known Mila, she sobbed.

her choked screams. "I went back to the village, and they're all dead. They

around the table to meet her. He reached for her shoulders, but she pulled away

And I'll fucking kill them,

I hardly felt the passage of time. My father traced his finger around the rim of

eggs-caught quite the price on the market. We staved them off as much as we could, but their underground networks ran deep. They got her kin in the end. Mila

failed in your end of the

that with the threat of my men on the horizon, the poachers would leave them alone. But they just got better

was a long pause before my father continued. "She kept true to her word," he whispered. "She killed every last one of those poachers.

created it when she

crossed over to the window yet again. "I still remember exactly what she said that day, while the mountain was still smoldering: "Their grave shall become my throne, Aldric. And I shall turn this mountain

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