His heart is already asleep in someone else's heart.

"Sit down when I ask you to boy'.

Ayden's father reprimanded him as he stood in the center of the large living room. With his head looking at the floor. He didn't have the balls to look at his father in the eye as he spoke.

" I believe your ears do function". He continued saying as he looked at his wife. She gave him a look that pleaded for her son but her husband didn't bother with her stare as he turned to look at his foolish son.

" You, you would send out a quarter of the blade troops just for a woman". He stated with utter disappointment on his face.

" I thought I raised you better". Huh, he snuffed as he looked away from his son in disdain.

" And I thought Delvin was the foolish one". He muttered under his breath unknowing to him that with Ayden's level of training, he could he would still hear what he would say even from a hundred steps away.

Ayden bent his head further down as a shadow of his hair was cast over his face, completely covering his eye an