Chapter 96

• The Kingdom of Pres.
• A year after Elena's mother's death...
• Emptiness. That was a feeling Elena was getting used to. That soul-sucking emptiness formed a huge hole in her chest. It's been a year since the death of her mother. Nothing has been the same since then. She looked at herself, as she sat hidden beneath a kitchen table, trying to avoid being caught by anybody. The son of one of her father's ministers has just tried to rape her. Nikoläs was his name. The first time she saw him was on her way to her room from the palace garden. He was with his friend, on who she recognized as the son of Côtan Lokï, her Father's closest advisor. His name was Afang Lokï, and if not for the company he kept, Elena would have deemed him a suitable friend.