As Sterling stood there, his powerful figure looming over Faye, his words kept ringing through her brain.
The one that carried the most significance was the word; 'peace'.
Something she thought she would never achieve, thinking back on the tough days she spent in Wintershold enduring the wrath of Aaron Montgomery.
However, that family and their evil deeds were no more.
She knew the Duke had seen to it.
She had watched as he himself had the satisfaction of annihilating its last family member and heir.
The sharp look in his fiery eyes as his arrow hit its mark and the look of astonishment and defeat on Aaron's face as he understood his life had just ended without achieving his end goal.
She heard Sterling gently calling her back to reality, "Faye? What are you thinking about?"