About the Things That Didn’t Happen

Dominic, the Slayer who killed a dragon for the first time in a thousand years, is hailed as the hero who brought the war to an end. Yet instead of receiving a reward, the king, wary of Dominic’s growing influence, appoints him as the personal guard of his concubine, Adelaide. But Adelaide is surrounded by scandal. She lives as the concubine of the very king who destroyed her homeland. And every one of her former escort knights was punished for falling in love with her. She was everything Dominic stood against. “Captain Dominic.” But the more time he spends with Adelaide, the more his world begins to shift. Everything he thought he knew slowly becomes uncertain. “Just because you don’t know about something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.” Once, standing in the very same place, he had thought of her differently. A vulgar, unpleasant woman with neither pride nor honor—someone utterly unworthy of being loved. “…I was a fool, Adelaide.” But the fickleness of a young man in love was worse than that of a beast, and those thoughts now seemed more wretched than the broken stems of a flower. I have never met anyone as strong as you. She was a woman for whom even all the precious things in the world would never be enough.