Fractured Loyalties

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

“My darling, I wish that you could stay longer. I hate that you are to leave in a matter of days. But ugh, no matter, I will spend every last minute here until you're sent back into the race,” Mother announces, straightening the books on my study, and picking up the paper with the declaration of my region of deployment from the Prince on it.

Her eyes lightly trail over th