REID"Why did you lie?"The words tore from my throat. I stood in a small holding room, staring down at the woman who had raised me."To protect you," she blankly stated. "Mom, they will have you publicly executed if you don't tell the truth," I said, stepping forward and taking her shoulders in my hands. "The High Council is looking for an example to prove the Crown still has teeth. If you confess to regicide, they will hang you.""Let them," she whispered, her gaze moving past my shoulder. For a split second, tears pooled in her eyes. "If I die... I might finally have a chance to be with your dad again.""Tell them the truth," I demanded, my grip tightening on her shoulders. "Tell them about the Blue Blight. Tell them what Dad was turning into.""No," she snapped. "If the High Council discovers the Blue Blight is in our lineage, they will wipe out what is left of us. You will be stripped of your title, of your nobility. Everything I did—everything your dad did to protect our hono
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