My favored. My gilded. My precious. She’s been stolen from me and is being held in an enemy’s clutches. I turn to my guards, my anger rising like boiling water, sending a thick haze of fury over my vision. The precision of my planned annihilation against King Fulke will be nothing compared to those who dared take Auren from me. She’s mine. And I’ll destroy everyone in my path to get her back.

