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Episode 22

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MIKAEL'S POV

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It's too late to catch her. Her hand evades my clasp, and she falls to the ground with a thud that sends my heart into overdrive. Not even the deadliest of battles have demanded as much blood as is currently pumped through the vessels of my body. My lungs toil as I grasp oxygen, each gulp bleached white with my mounting terror.

"What happened of her?" Rikal's question bears a tone that matches that of the thoughts darting around in my head. The problem is: I have not an answer.

It had gone to a mess in a second. I watched her head furrow with confusion as she stared at the blood dribbling from her hand. Just after, she'd stiffened, and I'd identified the daze in her countenance. I called for her, but before I could order an act of the guards in station around the stage, she'd wobbled backwards and collapsed to the floor.

"Saskia!" I cup her face with my right hand and, with my free one, drive tendrils of hair off her forehead.

Her long lashes cast a shadow on
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