Chapter ThirtyLiana’s POVThe chamber was dark when they came for me.I hadn’t slept.I had lain on the bed all night with the chains still against my skin, the fire burned low to embers, the scent of smoke and gold clinging to the sheets.Every creak of the hall beyond the door had made me flinch. Every whisper of wind had sounded like footsteps.When the door finally opened, I was already sitting up, my hands clenched tight in my lap.Two silent servants stepped in, carrying nothing but a lantern. They did not meet my eyes.“Come,” one said softly.My heart thudded once, hard.I rose, the chains whispering across my skin, my bare feet cold on the stone.They led me through corridors lit only by torches, deeper into the palace.We did not go toward the throne room.We went down.The air grew cooler, thicker with the scent of earth and damp stone.At last, we reached a heavy door banded with black iron.One of the servants pushed it open.Inside was no dungeon, but a room shaped like
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