Liam had basically blown up at Tatiana. His worry and some of his anger overrode his love for his beautiful queen. He couldn’t fathom a world without her in it… and had it not been for Theodore’s quick thinking and great strategy, he might have lost her.
The thought alone made him shudder, and was more than simply haunting.
How could he allow her such foolishness?
Sure, he couldn’t have known that Ophelia was playing him, but how was he to trust any of his subjects after that ordeal?
He realized he truly needed to go through the nobility, one by one. He could only put his faith in his siblings, Conrad – and maybe Sabrina and Alec because of the blood pact they had made decades ago.
Could he trust anyone but these few? He wondered.
Even his councilmen no longer seemed trustworthy
