Maren's POV
The bloody brat escaped us, but I know she is going to her sister in England. It is good, so now I can get both of them simultaneously. They took Ben and Carl away from me, and I will make them pay with their miserable lives. I will not let them take the throne from me! The throne is rightfully mine. Oliver and John think I am working with them. They do not know that their men despise them. It is easy to let their men astray and tell them I will make them my council members once we defeat Mercia, take the crowns of Mercia and Essex, and unite the two kingdoms. My father is old, and no one can defeat Oliver and John except me. I am not very good at fighting, but I am learning as the general with me is my new lover until I do not need him anymore. We got on a plane at the airpor
