Nineteen Evander Gordon The thing that annoyed me the most about Prince Declan was that he didn’t know I was like him. He thought that I was just some nobody. The son of a local politician. He had no idea that once, my family had an estate. That once, people feared me the same way that they feared him. Coleum had thirteen, powerful royal families. The Thirteen Lords. They lost power for a time, but reclaimed it in the 90’s. But after the deaths of the Royal family, and Prince Apollo fleeing with the traitor Princess, we had no choice but to leave Coleum. A lot of people had no choice but to leave Coleum. Because it was no longer a monarchy. The traitor Princess, from the family who had usurped our throne before, had declared it a democracy. Then,

