The words hung in the air, cold and sharp, sinking deeper than any blade. Kill Rowena. My mind reeled, trying to process the command. It wasn’t a suggestion. It wasn’t a choice. It was a sentence, spoken with a cold and final tone, like a command from a god.“No,” I breathed, the word barely a whisper, but it felt like a shout in the suffocating silence.Ronan, who had been frozen beside me, finally moved. He took a half-step in front of me, his body a shield. “You want us to murder her? An unarmed woman carrying my child?”His voice was dangerously low, a growl of disbelief and fury rumbling in his chest. I could feel the heat of his anger, the protective instinct that flared to life not just for me, but for the life he had just learned he’d created.The lead priestess’s expression remained unchanged, her eyes like chips of ice. “It is not a murder. It is a necessary sacrifice. Her life, for the balance of the world.”“That’s not a sacrifice, that’s an execution,” I shot back, findin
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