CHAPTER 16

MELVIN

The half moon shrouded the sky as it shone faintly in the early morning that was still dark and obscured, Edmund and Melvin sat waiting for the rest of the council as a small wind meandered down the room lifting his hair and letting it fall again to his broad shoulders.

Edmund stood nestled between Melvin and the next seat , the meeting had been long over due with Melvin postponing it on many occasion.

Melvin caught the whiff of blood as the man next to him lifted his goblet to his lips and as he dropped it back to the table Melvin looked down at his chest, where blood had stained his shirt. Melvin motioned to the man who tried wiping it off with his handkerchief. Christopher was running late as was his custom, Melvin thought about how he shouldn't had been in the meeting in the first , if his father had not insisted in love between his two sons and most importantly a sit for Chris at the table.

" The idiot don't just worth it ." Melvin thought in his mind as he pee