As you stood in one of the many fields of Dor, your husband beside you and your daughter frolicking in the corn, a sense of peace washed over you.

This was more than you ever thought you’d have.

Born to the King of Ilya as an Ordinary, you were dropped on the doorstep of a random house in the Slums to be raised as the disappointment you were.

Then you were thrown into the Purging Trials. You survived, but your Adena didn’t. Then you killed the King.

You were suddenly on the run from the Enforcer—the very Kai you’d befriended during the Trials.

You returned, and were betrothed to his brother.

You were forced through another set of Trials, married to Kitt, and then informed of your relation to him, only hours before Kai drove a fire poker through his chest.

The next month, you were married to Kai and became the Queen of Ilya—for the second time. Two years after that, you gave birth to your daughter, Kit.

Three years later, and you’ve finally settled into a life that wasn’t filled with death and loss.

“What’re you thinking about?” Your husband, Kai, asks from beside you, a hint of curiosity lacing his expression.