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CHAPTER 233: FAMILY

Penulis: Lizzy Fash
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-15 20:14:41

ADRIAN

The throne room echoed with silence, heavy and expectant. Shadows curled around the tall obsidian pillars, and firelight flickered across the blood-red tapestry that bore the crest of my house—a silver serpent wrapped around a sword.I sat on my throne, fingers steepled, waiting.After Turtela's flighty departure, they came just as I knew they would. My brothers. Virgo and Lucian. Born of my blood, tempered in war and bonded through centuries of conquest. But this—this would test what loyalty we had left."Adrian." Virgo spoke first, his voice low and clipped. Always the one to get to the point. His eyes were burning.Lucian stood beside him, quiet, but his jaw was tight. He was the more calculating of the two. If Virgo was the blade, Lucian was the poison."To what do I owe the pleasure?" I asked, descending the stairs of my dais slowly, the sound of my boots clicking against stone."You know why we're here," Lucian said."Do I? Enlighten me."Virgo stepped forward, tension coiled i
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    HAILEY "What on earth do you know about sacrifice?" I didn't look at Lilith immediately, nor did I care to read her expression as she repeatedly pleaded. Cried. Rationalised. Now, she would listen. "You always mistake my silence for softness, Lilith," I said quietly as I lowered myself before her. My gown rustled like silk thunder. My voice did not rise; it did not need to. "You forget that mercy is a choice. And I am running out of it. As it is, I am completely over it. You had your chance, and so did you." Her eyes brimmed with confusion and remnants of rage, but she remained quiet. Good. "Do you want to know what I have sacrificed to keep this realm breathing?" She didn't answer. I leaned forward. "I gave up my sons. Not for days. Not for months. For eighteen years. I couldn’t even nurse my daughter; I handed them over to strangers. Watched them disappear into the dark on the word of a seer who told me that was the only way they would live. I didn't get to see their first s

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    HAILEY The halls of the Queen's Wing were silent. Not the comforting kind of silence. This one was thick with grief, tension, and too many unspoken truths. I sat in the old observatory, where the moonlight poured in through the glass ceiling and painted silver trails along the ancient stone. I used to love this place. Ryan and I had watched stars here before our kingdom became a battlefield of secrets and sorrow. Before the triplets were taken. Before Amenia and I were torn apart. The wind whispered her name even now. Armenia. She was the core of my strength, my wolf. The protector, the rage, the anchor to the earth. And I lost her. Or abandoned her. I couldn’t decide which was worse. The door creaked, and I knew who it was before I turned. "You still sit here like the stars will solve what you refuse to face," Isaiah said gently, stepping into the light. He walked like he always did—with the calm of a thousand years and the weight of every soul he'd guided. "Do y

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