The palace halls had grown chilled, or perhaps Liora was the one feeling it—an unseen chill creeping along under her skin, into her bones.She sat next to her window, fingers laced together in her lap. Her nails dug into her palms, but she didn't loosen her grip. Her reflection in the glass was a white face, pressed lips, haunted eyes.Kaelen's words still echoed in her brain, a snake wrapped around her mind. “I never loved you. I hated you. I will watch Draven destroy you.”She rested her forehead against the cold glass and closed her eyes, and that made the echo worse.The door creaked.Draven stood in the doorway, looming over her, his golden eyes to embers. He no longer looked at her as he had before—with hunger, with revolt, with the implication that nothing in the world would ever take her from him. Now, when his gaze swept over her, it flashed away, as if her presence pained him too much."Eat," he instructed her, his tone rough. He gestured toward the tray a maid had set besid
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