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Chapter 40: The Heart Wants

CHARLES’S POV:

Two soldiers flanked a gaunt, hard-faced man as he marched forward. His dead eyes sat low inside thin, lizard-like horizontal slits. As he approached Charles and Grace, an aura of anger and menace hovered about him like an invisible cloud. He was a dangerous man, Charles knew, for Charles knew the walk of dangerous men, their stare, their energy. Charles was one of them.

“Charles, what’s happening?” Grace asked with a tremble in her voice. She clutched his elbow.

Charles turned. More soldiers approached from the other direction, trapping them. Charles hadn’t seen this man before. He wasn’t at the welcoming party, yet he carried himself with the supreme confidence of command. He wore Aeonian military insignia on his lapel signifying the highest rank.