When his younger sister is propositioned by the Tyrant King, Aster steps in to take her place. Just when he fears he must face this fate alone, the King assigns Rowan the Black to protect him—an Enforcer Knight with a tortured past. Despite his cruel reputation, Aster can't shake the feeling that Rowan is familiar to him. Haunted by memories of his lost childhood sweetheart, Jace, Aster must now navigate a veritable political chess game he wasn't at all prepared for. 

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“Flowers like the rose are needed for so many reasons,” Aster said. “The ground needs their roots, bees need their pollen, and animals need their leaves. So they do what they can to survive, by any means necessary. Does that mean a rose is evil for growing thorns?” He looked up at Rowan.

Rowan kept his eyes on the rose. He didn’t seem convinced. “A single rose has never caused as much pain as I have, Aster.”

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Broken Vows is created by Alex Agar, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author. 

BRoken Vows

This was it, the moment of truth. Everything they’d done and everything they’d planned had led to this moment.


As he hauled his stumbling husband up the castle steps toward his room, he kept looking back over his shoulder at Jace. Those brown eyes offered comfort and reassurance that he could never say, and it was all Aster needed to keep dragging the intoxicated fool of a King to his chambers. 


“I’ll knock if we need you, Ser Rowan,” Aster said with a meaningful look. His Knight nodded.


“Naaah, you won’t need him!” Darreth declared as he dragged him into the room and shut the door. He didn’t even wait until the door closed to let his hands start journeying all over Aster’s body. “I’ve been aching to get you to myself this entire evening…”


Chapter 44: Vengeance and Consequence