His Eternal Bond Was Never Mine
“We found her in an abandoned chapel outside the city. For hiring the Fallen to harm a Prince and a future Prince’s mate, the Council has sentenced her to the Dungeons of Holy Light for eternity.”
The captain finished, gave me a deep look of apology and respect, and quietly backed out.
The room was silent.
The news landed like a boulder, shattering the last of Darius’s illusions about the past.
He closed his eyes, his face twisting in pain.
All his efforts to ‘atone,’ to repay a debt that never existed, had been met with a more venomous betrayal.
A moment later, the door opened again. It was Julian.
He saw Darius in the bed, saw my red-rimmed eyes, and his gaze softened with my heartbreak.
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