Chapter 230

Celia

The words of their message changed but my family asked me to do just one thing- to not associate myself with the race that had caused us so much pain.

Then the voices stopped just as abruptly as they had begun. I had shut my eyes tightly when I could not bear it anymore but now that they were suddenly gone, I slowly opened my eyes again.

My mother, Liam and father was gone. Only the shadows and the dark witch, Isadora remained.

Isadora, the woman, I had stayed with in Ivan’s castle.

She had been Ivan’s right hand and always stayed by him through all our interactions. She had been there when there was an attack on the castle, and also when the new fletchings rose.

But how?

Isadora was the dark witch? She had been hiding in plain eyesight all these years? My brain was reeling due to the avalanche of thoughts it was trying to process.

“You…you are…” I tried to speak but the voices of my family were too apparent in my head.

“Yes. Me. After all this time. Fooled all of you, didn’t I