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CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN – Torn Between Fates[Part 2]

Author: Mercy V.
last update publish date: 2026-04-08 06:33:43

“Best case?” she says. “You and he come to an agreement before the Rite ever begins. Either he chooses you fully and publicly on his own terms, not as a panicked reaction in a ritual circle. Or you choose to end the bond cleanly, with the old severing I mentioned. Away from their chalk and their fear.”

“And the Goddess?” I ask. “She just… accepts that?”

“She accepts a choice made freely,” Morwen says. “That was the point of all this. Not that you dance to the elders’ tune.”

I stare at a knot in
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