Chapter 250

• [Primus]
• They say those who know us the best can cut us the deepest.
• Once, Atremi Glaveheart was one of my only friends in the palace. My mother was distant, running affairs in the Celestial Kingdom while my father spent her dowry and procured new mistresses. I was close to my clutchmate, Ona, but she was off on official business most of the time. As the male heir, it was my responsibility to stay close to home, to learn from my father, and to make connections that would serve me during my reign.