Darkness. Endless darkness.I didn't know if it had been two days or three.In this freezing dungeon, I was like a dying zombie, my breaths laced with ice shards.Finally, on the evening of the third day, the door opened.A guard brought in a steaming plate of premium human food and threw it on the icy floor.I had no hands.My wrist bones had been completely crushed to powder by Julian's shadow magic.But I had to survive. Cassian was coming to pick me up tonight.Like a dying beast, I dropped to my knees, crawled on the freezing ground, and pressed my mouth to the edge of the plate, wolfing down the warm food.Humiliating?No. As long as I could escape this hell, dignity meant nothing.When the plate was empty, I saw a perfumed parchment slip pressed underneath.It was Giselle's cursive handwriting:[Sister, Julian and I forge our Eternal Blood Pact tonight. At the altar.]I looked at the line and couldn't even bother to sneer.I pressed the note down with my elbow, letting it soak i
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