She Is Mine

Valen

Blood was going to be spilled. That certainty hit me the exact second Kaelia Vieri’s name was spoken with deliberate weight.

Nobody raised their voice or put on a dramatic show when they brought her up. Three men sat talking inside a room lined with decorative wood and glass—men who only had to murmur a quiet word for their commands to be carried out.

“She’s a young girl,” one of them rem