Chapter 176

"Your Majesty, more small packs came to pledge their allegiance to you!” Commander Landon reported with a smile. “Now the High Priestess won't worry about us being the invaders anymore!” “So true,” Jace commented as well. “There are also rogue groups joining us too, thanks to Alpha Ethan's intimidating reputation. They knew better than to fight with the former Rogue King!" I smiled and nodded. It was indeed great news. If this continued, we could expect minimum disruption to the citizens’ lives while achieving our goal of taking over Mirage. Meanwhile, we continued to proactively push Kal's line south, out of our territory. Ethan and I didn’t see much of each other while we were in attack mode, because he was leading the army and looking over the data to see what was working and what we needed to improve upon now that his strength was more stable. But I thought about him a lot. Seeing him hold our son and rock him back to sleep when the boy was fussy was a permanent memory ingrained in