DravenEverything in me went still. I felt shattered in a way that I didn’t even know how to react anymore.My uncle.The man who nicknamed me Rethan. The man who spent hours with me when I was younger trying to hold my sword properly so I can impress my father. A man I took like a second father. I wailed when we didn’t find him on the battlefield. I thought he’d been burned to the bone. I was devastated. I was alone with an entire kingdom to rule at twelve and he’s been nursing a grudge before I was born.My mother, my father—lies, half-truths. Everything I thought I understood… ripped apart in a matter of minutes.My chest tightened and not from these creatures holding me down…from something deeper, heavier.“I trusted you…I admired you,” I whispered, looking up at this man before me who wanted to destroy the world. I looked at Zuri, “I trusted you, I gave you authority to command.I fucking put you in charge. And you—“ My jaw clenched hard enough it hurt.I looked at my son in her
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