Chapter 11

Nicholas

Rage burned inside of me brighter than any I’d ever known before and this girl was going to take all of it on her shoulders. My own brother had betrayed me. I didn’t care that he claimed it was to get another out of power. Did he really think I was that weak? That I couldn’t handle that sham of a leader myself?

Erina shivered beneath my glare. The things I would do to her. It was her fault all this happened, and I had every intention of teaching her place. Besides, Warren had to be taught a lesson for all of this. He wanted to take her first? Fine, but he might not be happy with what I left behind.

“Go in there,” I ordered.

She froze at the entrance to my room. Maybe it was the blood-red rose petals that were scattered across the floor, a gift I had prepared for our special night before she’d been robbed from me. Or maybe it was my black silk bed that sat in the middle of the room with the chains dangling down from the ceiling. Those were goin