Alpha's Second Choice
Her only solace was Anne, the fourth-born—quiet, thoughtful, kind in the way someone half-afraid of being noticed could be.
And the library. Gods, the library.
Hidden under the west wing, the Sea Kingdom's library was a sunken cathedral of knowledge. Books from every realm—wizard tomes, dragon scrolls, history texts, even forbidden demon lore—rested in enchanted glass shells. Jo often skipped etiquette lessons to sink into its pages.
At sixteen, she sat cross-legged beside a pillar of moon kelp, nose deep in The Hierarchies of Hell: Demon Ranks and Powers, her fingers trailing over an ancient diagram of a horned prince, when she heard the voice.
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