Elena's POVThree days after Cassian and Seraphina were taken away, his father, Alaric, came to the Central territory himself to watch him stand trial.He came straight to my parents' estate. He did not go to the holding facility to see Cassian first.Five years had gone by, and he looked much older.When he saw me he apologized for the choice Cassian had made back then, and admitted that the clan had failed to call his son to account in time for the sake of its own name, which was why Cassian had gone on believing he could return whenever he liked, and why he had done all of this to me.I did not comfort him.If the clan had truly brought Cassian back five years ago, a great deal might have gone differently.But the child I lost is not coming back, and what I went through does not disappear.A late apology only proves that they can see the consequences now.When I was small, Alaric treated me like half a daughter.He watched us take lessons together, watched us become engaged, and pre
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