Chapter 146

{Kira's POV}

Waiting had become the most familiar thing in my life recently.

I leaned against the wall outside my father’s meeting chambers, arms folded, head bowed just enough that I didn't have to watch the men passing by ignore me.

They always did now. A guard here, an advisor there, all of them moving with purpose through hallways I used to move through the exact same way. None of them looked