Gideon's POV
"Three months after our wedding ceremony, I was locked in my room," she began, her voice barely a whisper. "It was... it was more like a broom closet than a room. But I overheard some guards talking and laughing outside... about how Lucian had my father killed the night of the ceremony. While he was in my bed."
My right hand curled into a bone-crushing fist against my knee, the muscle in my jaw working overtime as Kane let out a vicious snarling rumble deep in my chest. But I forced my face to remain completely calm. She needed my strength right now, not my uncontrolled fury.
"After that... I planned to leave," she said, tears welling up in her hazel eyes and making them glisten against the firelight. "I was only there three months, but it felt like years. Every night he w
