Chapter 117: Goodbye

Leah stood before the tomb with tears in her eyes.

How could this happen? she kept wondering. How can he really be gone?

He had come so far. He had survived so much. To think that a life such as his would end not in glorious battle, nor peacefully in the night as an old man, but by the blade of a cowardly assassin. It was criminal. It was unfair.

You deserved better than this, Leah thought. You earned better than this.

She thought back to all the dangers she had faced and had managed to live through-a young woman with no military background or experience in battle, until recently. All she had was a bit of self-defense training... and some bodyguards willing to give their lives for her.

If anyone should have been in the ground, it was her. And yet, she was allowed to live on while he...