Chapter 13

“I asked you a question, Eva.” Lucian’s voice hits like a blade across stone, slicing the stale air of the hidden chamber. Bones and old sigils still glow faintly on the walls where the elders stood moments ago. Now it’s just him and me and the echo of what they offered. Do you mean to kill your King? My throat is raw from screaming in my head, but the words still come out steady. “Maybe I don’t see a King when I look at you. Maybe I just see the man who keeps rewriting my life...