The Rejected Luna's Bloodline
"Unlike you, Lucian, I have never pretended my hands are clean. That pretense is precisely what has kept this bloodline suffering in silence for three hundred years, protected just enough to survive and never enough to finally end the reason it needs protecting at all."
Sera felt something shift in her chest, anger burning through the fear now, steady and clarifying. "You want me dead. Say it plainly instead of hiding behind speeches about mercy."
Selene's gaze did not waver. "I want the silver line ended, fully, completely, in a way Ophira's failed ritual never managed. Whether that requires your death depends on you, not on me. There is another path. One that does not end in a hollow or a