★Nuel's POV★
They say first impressions matter. Perhaps that had been my first mistake. Fenric had stolen from me on the very day we met and though I should have heeded the warning, I let it go. I forgave him after I fell for him. I forgot about it once I was smitten.
Perhaps that was my true error. Perhaps that was why Eldoria burned. Perhaps that was why my people were annihilated. Because I loved him. Because I was foolish enough to believe in him. Because I gave my heart to the very man who had proven, from the beginning, that he was a thief.
The last time I saw Fenric was in my family home. Eldoria's royal court was already in ruins, destroyed in his madness, shattered by his hunger for my father's jade pendant.
