“YOU FIRED all your saddles,” I said with a tone as dry as I could. Seeing Rhys sitting on the dais, on his throne, looking outrageously bored out of his mind made me remember our last encounter at the chair, and it made the blood in my body boil. For some reason, I felt humiliated, but liberated at the same time, which only fueled the shame in my mind. I ignored the heavy feeling in my chest and lifted my chin at him. “Why?”
When he saw me entering the throne room, he immediately told every single person in the room to leave. Now it was just the two of us. I was slightly intimidated that we were only together in such a wide space, but I knew that Rhys would not do something so drastic in the middle of his throne room. And I was pretty sure his guards were still waiting outside.
Though I
