Chloe's POVThe air inside the timber lodge turned instantly, violently cold.The parchment on the table,stamped with the blood-red wax seal of King Ralf,seemed to glow with a sickening, suffocating light. My hands, which had been hovering nervously near my waist where our secret baby slept, dropped limply to my sides."Betrothed?" I whispered, my voice sounding paper-thin, echoing eerily in the quiet room.Lewis looked at me with an expression of agonizing, tortured helplessness, his amber eyes slitted and dark with a grief so deep it made my own chest ache."Lady Seraphina," Lewis rasped, taking a heavy step toward me, his voice trembling with a rare, terrible desperation. "She is the daughter of the high council leader. The Zuri clan is facing a genetic collapse in their lower bloodlines. King Ralf is using the match to secure the eastern borders and preserve royal lion strain.""A lion wife," I murmured, a bitter, hysterical laugh threatening to break from my throat. I backed away
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