Lethal Defiance

[KAELIA BRYNN HALLOWAY]

The High Lord's lips lift slightly at the prince’s statement.

"But your presence is so —painfully underwhelming,” he remarks lazily. Eyes gleaming, he suddenly raises a ringed finger that I watch as if the beginning of a nightmare, shift toward me.

I am like a deer caught in headlights, my heart racing, but I quickly look at the ground before his gaze casually shifts from t