Chapter 82: Fireworks

NIKOLAI

It’s day three of training my warriors and recruiting every other single able-bodied men I find. I’m not exactly desperate, I trust my men to finish the job but better prepared than sorry.

Winter and I are still an unresolved issue, she avoids me as much as she can and it freaking hurts. I’m still yet to figure out what I did so wrong but I’m not sure how long I can take this silent treatment for before I go crazy.

She doesn’t even speak to me, I mean she does, but not in the same way she used to. She talks to me like she’s my subject, even some of the maids are not as respectful as she is when she speaks to me.

I say her name and she goes; yes your highness, then she bows. I get so mad and I can’t even yell about it. Aunt Hyacinth tells me it’s my fault but she won’t tell me what I did or how to fix it.

I’m sorry, I’m really sorry. I’ll do whatever it takes for her to stop treating me like this.

I’ve been transferring all the aggression and anger I feel into this war an