Chapter 33

What do you say to a queen who has lost her king? Not just any king, but her own father? What made the situation worse was the implication and the knowledge that somebody had caused Maximillian Goldberg’s death. Somebody had done the unthinkable and poisoned him. Killed him. The pain of that knowledge was devastating, and I felt helpless as there was nothing, I could do to soothe the rage that kindled beneath my mate’s breast and pounded silently in her heart. “We are gathered here today, to witness the ceremonial leaving of King Maximillian’s soul as it returns to the goddess and his body, his vessel is turned to ashes.”