Whispers of the Throne

ROWAN’S POV

“Oh, but it was a trophy, Rowan.” She looks at me with genuine, baffled frustration, like I’m a slow child failing an obvious sum. “I survived, did I not? That is the only trophy there has ever been. My survival. The world will teach you the way it taught me, and the world is a far crueller tutor than I ever was.”

Not once have the men broken their stunned silence, watching this foul w