Forbidden Lessons
And she had killed him.
I swallowed hard, my throat tightening with rage. She had defended herself. She had fought for her life. But that meant someone had sent him to take it. Someone had sent him to hurt what was mine. To hurt her. To kill her.
My chest heaved with fury, my vision narrowing. The council. They had been against her from the start. They had never accepted her, and now… now they had gone too far.
I knelt down beside the body, my fingers grazing the cool skin. He was older, not by much, but experienced. Skilled enough to evade detection in my own realm, in my own home. My fists clenched so tightly my knuckles turned white.
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