Chapter 15
Rasa knows, knows in his bones, that he should have let the pretty Iwa girl go the minute the mother had left her at the gates and never looked back.
But personal greed, shame and even…lust for power had consumed him.
Iwa owed him now—they were such a tight-knit community they never let anyone leave the village—and keeping the little girl alive, despite her raging hatred of him, her bright anger and vicious words, gave him an advantage.
He had checked in with her every now and then, often grimacing as he noticed the way his people treat her—despite doing nothing to stop it—but...knowing he had a little bit of another country under his control, no matter how little, no matter how small gives him hope.
“You have an assignment.”
He will shape her into his weapon.
He will shape her into a monster that is only his.