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CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: RIVALS

Author: Halle
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AVA

I already knew things wouldn’t sum up.

Not in this palace.

Not with these people.

Not even with Caleb.

And Jatina? She had loyalty stitched into her silence, but silence wasn’t the same as trust. As long as she kept hiding the truth, she wasn’t on my side either.

The palace walls whispered more than they spoke. And I was drowning in a language made of half-truths and glances that meant too much.

That’s when the letter came.

Folded twice, tucked beneath my pillow like a secret lover’s confession.

No name. Just shaky handwriting that read:

“Meet me. The old stables. Midnight.”

That was it.

No explanation.

Just like all the other times…times that always led to bruises and blood or some new discovery that cracked the world open wider.

I’d lost count of how many letters had tried to lure me to my doom. But this one... this one made my pulse hitch. Because despite everything, I went.

I told Jatina.

I had to tell someone.

“I’m meeting someone,” I said, pretending to adjust my scarf in t
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