Humiliation for the Mistress

“Princess Lyra?”

The name didn’t just hang in the air; it felt like a physical blow, a heavy weight that crushed the oxygen out of the hallway. Alaric’s face went ashen, the blood draining so rapidly from his features that he looked like a ghost of the man who had arrived only minutes ago. Beside him, Selene was even worse. Her eyes were wide, bulging with an incredulous shock that bordered on ma