“Fin, if you’re in love with Annika and want her, then for the love of Gods do something about it before you blow the castle up,” Jiho remarked, despite every hair on his arm rising up and pulling his flesh upward as though begging him to flee. “Oh sure. I’ll have her denounce her title and have her wealth be taxed until it dwindles next to nothing as punishment for her disobedience against the king. I’ll stop her committing to the necessary political marriage that would save the country. She’ll be alienated from the only true friends she has ever had, all to toil her days away bearing my
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