Chapter 8: “Are you injured, Your Highness?

Chapter 8: “Are you injured, Your Highness?

Alaric Davenmore hadn’t always been the cold, merciless man he was now. Once, he was kind and full of warmth just like his parents, the former Duke and Duchess of Davenmore. They were good people who treated even their servants as part of the family. When the twins, Lyric and Sylas, were born, the household overflowed with joy and harmony, but everything changed on the day of Alaric’s debut into society.

That night, tragedy struck when a trusted servant, someone closer to their parents than to their own children betrayed them. The servant, their beloved nanny and a commoner treated as a friend, stabbed the duke and duchess to death. Together with a few conspirators, she stole family jewels and set the estate on fire. The flames nearly consumed the twins as well, and though the three brothers survived, their lives were never the same again.

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