Mariah glanced around the little room she had been brought in. Five maids knelt in front oof her but Elena was not one of them. She sat on the feathered bed, it was soft and small but it can make do. With the news of the gods attacking, Alaric had ordered that children and the women who can’t fight be locked in the Panic cave he had been preparing since he saved them. The Keep, he calls it, she has heard him talk about it a lot of times but she never thought he actually built a kingdom underground. They were more rooms than she can count, an although, people were made to share, he actually made a provision for her to stay alone, long before it was even revealed that she was his mate.
The woman, Elder Athena had insisted that Alaric marked her, however, since the news was announced that t
