Chapter 10: Kneel

Kaelen Thorne stood up. He stood up slowly, and he was very tall, and he was wearing no crown at all — and it made absolutely no difference, because the pressure that came off him bent every wolf in that corridor like wheat. Dorian's knees hit the floor first. Then the six guards, all at once, foreheads down. Ulric was the last, and the torch shook so badly he dropped it. "My — my King—" "Say the rest," Kaelen said. "My King, I didn't—" "You had the sentence ready. Alone in her...