“Think, Samkiel. Why would he lie to so many he claimed to care for? Why lie in the first place? Unless what he hid was so very precious to him. Wouldn’t you want to hide that which you loved so much if the entire realm wished it dead?” My heart thudded. “Kaden was more than a general to him?” The Higher One nodded. My hands fisted. “A lover?” “No.” She smiled widely and shook her head, her dark hair spilling over her shoulders. “A son.”
