Juniper
“I, Lukas Daniel Aidamir, challenge you, Tobias Arnold Bancroft, for the throne of the kingdom of Volkor.”
My stomach clenched, and my heart dropped to my feet as I heard Lukas utter those words. It was his final back-up plan, the plan he was only going to use if there was no other way around it.
I swallowed nervously, but didn’t reveal myself, even though I was desperate to do so. I couldn’t risk it, couldn’t reveal the last twist in my plan.
Especially since only three of us knew about it.
It had been incredibly difficult to keep myself hidden when the fighting had broken out, especially when I felt Drew’s pain as he was attacked.
I had been keeping my wall up to block him out, so he wouldn’t feel me, but even with that up, the amount of pain he was in — both physical and e
