THE TWIN BOND
"You split them, Lira, and you lied. You smuggled my spare heir south like a thief and let Bren carry my firstborn back with his mouth shut for twenty years, and you thought I did not know?"
Queen Lira goes still and does not deny it, and that tells me everything. Cael's grip on my neck steadies me even though I want to run to Maya, and I lock my knees because she needs me standing.
"You ordered us dead," I say, and my voice shakes, but I do not step back. "The prophecy says twins are cursed. You wanted us killed at birth." Roran nods slowly, like he expected nothing less from me.
"The prophecy says one heart must feed the tree," he says. "One twin must die so the kingdom lives. I did not or
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