Nicholas
I had no idea why I decided to help Piper. She had betrayed me in the past. By all accounts, I should have been pleased to see her fail.
Yet, when I stood outside the sitting room and heard Lena suggest the traditional punishment for Piper, I couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing.
The thought of Piper kneeling out in a storm, soaked, chilled, and miserable sent an unfamiliar tremor of rage through me.
I didn’t feel strong emotions like that anymore, not since I turned off my heart three years ago. But this hot anger had been enough to melt through my emotional freeze.
I couldn’t be detached, not with this.
Ambassador Zale had taught the royal family the secret Merfolk greeting only a few hours before. The timing had been peculiar, almost as if he had expected us to ut
