Chapter 92

Two Years Later

I finished dressing up Saoirse, smiling. "Look at my little Saoirse. Isn't she adorable?" I said as I put her down on the floor. I watched her walking on her own already while she was giggling.

"Mama! Mama!" The door busted open revealing Sander in his new clothes. "Papa sent a letter, Mama! Look! Look! The insignia of the House of Verlice!" he beamed. His face brightened when he walked toward me. "Auntie Rachelle bestowed it to me after I am done training with Cloudy."

My heart leaped out of my ribcage upon hearing that. I took the letter from him and saw the crest of the House of Verlice. The crest was the shield and in the center of it were the three heads of the wolf with vines protecting the edge of the shield.

The House of Verlice was one of the 'shields' of the de Carteret royal Lycan family of the Sowinski Kingdom. If one's noble household became one of the 'shields', it meant that you were bound to protect all the members of the royal