Your mind races as you speed walk through the streets of O’Khasis, the hood over your head shielding your face and hiding your identity from the people you passed by. Jeffory had let you and Aphmau go on the mere mention of his daughter alone. He was blinded by his own love for his family, and you took advantage of it.

There was no way he wouldn’t be killed for this. No. Zane wouldn’t let something like this go. So despite Aphmau and your fellow guards telling you no, you left for O’Khasis in the night, hell-bent on saving the single father from his fate. You couldn’t be responsible for this.

So what are the odds that you run right into the Junru of Nine Knight himself as you turn the corner?

Green eyes widen down at you, brown eyebrows pulling together in astonishment and confusion. “You... What are you doing here?”