Lunessa's POV I wasn’t sure whether to nod or lie again. My throat tightened, that was my mother’s name. Tala. I looked at the soldier, then back at the man standing before me.His eyes softened with realization, with a wave of his hand, he dismissed the soldier and instructed the guards to leave. The room felt quieter, heavier, as he lowered himself onto the seat beside me.And in that moment I saw it, the resemblance. The shape of his eyes, The curve of his brow, a flicker of something familiar.“Yes… my mother is Tala,” I confessed, my voice barely above a whisper.He exhaled like a man who’d been holding his breath for years. His hand pressed to his chest as though to steady a heart that had waited too long.“Oh. Finally, after so many years,” he murmured, and to my surprise, tears slipped down his face.“You knew her?” I asked, my words laced with cautious wonder.“Come with me,” he said quietly.We walked deeper into the mansion, our footsteps muffled by thick carpets and the k
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