Submission is Not My Style
“Big words from a queen who couldn’t even protect her daughter. She was right there, under your roof, wrapped in your so-called queenly care—and I plucked her away like ripe fruit. You didn’t even notice. You failed her. Do you remember it—the fear? The helplessness? I drank it in. I fed on it.”
For the briefest heartbeat, the Queen falters, her face tightening, her fingers twitching at her sides. But she sets her jaw, refusing to give him the satisfaction. “You don’t get to twist my pain into your triumph,” she says, her voice deadly. “You were nothing but a pawn, Malik. Varkos’s pawn. His obedient dog.”
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