tcher Ter

uthlessly cut off the funds, the Packhouse had descended in

that the cooks were serving cheap meat, that the wine cellar was nearly e

orst part

and Luna ceremony had been indefinitely postponed. The lavish gifts and weapons she expected were nowhere to be seen. She started lo

used her of being materialistic, and she actually slammed t

king cheap, bitter ale sullenly

ummons you to the Palace immediately," the mess

ng was finally going to give me my new command and my royal rewards! If I could just secure this new position, th

ed military uniform and rushed to the Royal Palace,

was not praise, nor a new command, but the i

om for a full half-hour without saying a si

ng. I felt less like a victorious, decorated general, and more like a

ly ventured, my voic

mth, sharp as a guillotine. "I hear your private life has been vastl

ped into my throat. I

and then humiliates that same female," the King continued, his tone flat but every word driving like a spike into my sk

who had spoken to him. I could only stammer a desperate defense. "My King, I assure you, t

le onto his desk. "Go home, Fletcher. Settle your shameful domestic mess. Until you can prove you are a cap

t of black lightning. I was frozen to

This was... this was d

orm suddenly feeling like a clown's costume. I was completely bewildere

rcers standing guard were whispering behind

a. The idiot who dumped the Alvarado h

stood right here for four hours without flinching. Her bearing, he

the spot, chewed out General Terrell for being a parasitic bastard, and

l hammer blows, smashing into

! It w

, so magnanimous to my face when she handed over the Luna ring, but behin

House Alvarado! What a fi

, twisted sense of betrayal-it all consum

y knuckles cracked, and began to march furi

l, venomous bitch to her face! I was goi