Everything was gone. It had all been torn down in the blink of an eye. Your family had abandoned you. Your manor had been burned to the ground. Your friends had disappeared, and everyone's mistakes had been left behind for you to deal with.

You were too trusting... and now you had to pay the price.

Your captor brought you forward into a small room, your head hung low before your new master... Only for the criminal to be stabbed through the head as soft arms embraced you and a gentle voice whispered to you. "My darling... Oh, how I wished I would never have to save you as you saved me..."

Was that... Penir? You thought he'd left years ago. A slave you'd saved from execution, but now... A duke?