Forbidden Bonds

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

Mother's words salt the air and everything else around me feels like ice.

I stare at her in both surprise and bewilderment, unsure how to react to her sudden assertion.

Perhaps it is the shock of it all. The way in which she both identifies and downgrades Kaelia.

'That Human.'

Spoken in a way that shatters my heart. For she had been my hope. I understood that others would