Chapter 24

“You still have so much left to learn.” On the surface, it sounded harmless enough, but he was speaking to Vanessa, who had been trained rigorously under Fren. The training Vanessa had endured was severe enough to rightly be called abuse, even in the eyes of Fren, who had been a long-serving soldier. Vanessa had every right to feel hurt by those words. Fren was not unaware of that. He simply had something he wanted to confirm. Resting his chin on his hand, he gazed down at Vanessa.