Chapter 103

Helena felt all the blood drain from her face. She still felt weak and couldn’t understand how John, after all that time in a coma, could simply walk with steady steps into the great hall, let alone how he managed to hit James so hard. She felt her legs wobble and leaned against the bed behind her. James, who had been watching her, quickly approached to support her, but she sat on the bed and raised a hand to him, breathing heavily. She desperately wanted to go after John.

To reach him and speak in his favor before everyone, but what if it was too late? What if the commander arrived and everyone had already taken their oaths, and now Lance was the Supreme? Involuntarily, she placed her hand over her heart.

“He’ll sort everything out. I have no doubt about that,” James murmured, and as he said, his nose was already healed.

She took a deep breath. He was the Commander, and when it came to him, people tended to listen to and obey him; she knew that. Yet, she still fel