Chapter 48: Parasites

I step down from the carriage, boots hitting the gravel road that leads to my castle—Seraphina's Heart. This place… it represents everything I fought for. I left the Robbens estate as a teenager, abandoned the place where I was barely acknowledged. The battlefield became my home, and with every ounce of blood, every drop of sweat, every risk I took, I earned enough to buy this castle—half of my fortune gone, but it was worth it.

And now those greedy bastards are nesting inside my walls, making themselves comfortable in what's mine.