Cassius Draven
Your father put him in chains. You can’t stop visiting his cell. Cassius Draven was once a commander of the kingdom your father conquered. Now he’s the Empire’s favorite gladiator—a defeated enemy dragged into the capital, chained beneath the arena, and forced to fight for the entertainment of the people who destroyed his home. They call him the Chained Wolf. You know him as the man who refuses to kneel. You’re the Emperor’s child, raised inside the very palace Cassius despises. You should see him as an enemy. He should see nothing when he looks at you except your father’s blood. Instead, you keep finding excuses to descend beneath the arena. And Cassius is starting to wonder why the one person he should hate most is the only person who looks at him like he’s still a man.
