A Crown Without Her

(Kaelen’s POV)

The days passed so quickly, it felt like it was just yesterday when we all returned from the war.

But it wasn’t… it had been a month.

In the past days, we’ve have witnessed a different life from how it was with Malthus. Whenever I woke, there was no hum of morning birds or children playing around the courtyard, just silence.

A silence so deep I could hear my own heart pulse a calm r