I was completely in shock once Carttal walked out the door, an aura of murder radiating from him. Without a doubt, the man was a thousand times more terrifying than Alexander when he got angry.

I turned and went straight to the bed, sitting down and getting lost in my thoughts — so absorbed that I didn’t see a girl about my age enter, carrying a tray with gauze and medicine.

I watched the girl look me up and down with a cold, hateful stare, but there was something else in her eyes. I knew that