BOUND TO THE BLOOD KING
“Then whoever this stranger is, they know exactly where to cut.”
For a long moment, thunder filled the silence between them. Then Bianca spoke, her voice low, distant, and dangerous:
“Summon Lucia. If my stepmother’s ghosts have returned, I’ll need to remind them what real death feels like.”
The corpse lay in the council courtyard, still warm, rain dripping from his armor. One of Bianca’s elite guards loyal, trained, unflinching. Now dead.
Lucia knelt beside the body, peeling back the collar of his uniform. Beneath the skin, branded deep into the flesh, was a mark: a serpent devouring its own tail. The ouroboros.
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