Kael's POV
My brothers almost moved to her, but my gaze warned them. It was between me and her, so they should stay out of it. They understood and stayed in their places.
I looked back at her; my heart hurt. All these years she had believed I was the one to order them to hurt her and sell her. How much she must have hated me with every breath she took.
I never told them to hurt her, but left her there to get the punishment every prisoner gets for their crimes. When I told them to carry out her punishment and not bother me with it, I meant she should be punished like any other prisoner for their crimes.
She would have been locked in dark, damned chambers with rotten prison cells, would have been given a meal and water only once a day, hurled some curses at by guards out of habit and hatred, and if the prisoner was not obedient they were subjected to whip lashes or kept starving for days.
