Chapter Two Hundred and Two

“I know the truth,” I said to Julia, finally speaking up.

“What truth? Don’t tell me you still fall for his falsehoods you should have learned your lessons by now.”

“He tried to protect me. He kept me safe. That’s more than you’ve ever done?”

“Protect you–you really think you are safe here with him?”

“Safer than I ever was back in the castle.”

“I taught you better than this, Aliya. I taught you about bad people who would want to taint you, but you were always the curious type; I should have known.” She said, I didn’t miss the fact that she addressed me by my name.

“I remember everything you taught me, Julia. Thanks to you, I know more languages than I’ll ever have the chance to use in my lifetime.

You spoke endlessly about good and evil–you painted yourselves as saints, but you all are far from that. I know the truth now. Your plan was to sacrifice me. That encounter–all of it–was a lie. I was nothing but a vessel to you.”

“And do you think you mean anything to him?” she asked, her gaze drifting back to Daemon, who had remained worryingly silent. A smile spread across her face before she tossed the amulet into the air.

split second, she seized me in her iron grip–her

out. His eyes snapped to me, his hand reaching–but it was

made it. He could

didn’t know how I got there or how long it

eyes, I was on the floor of a familiar room–a place that had once haunted me.

the castle, the very place I had escaped from. And worse, I was in Julia’s room–the place I hated

most.

the silence, reminding me I wasn’t alone. Julia

“How…”

did you get here? I brought you, but the trip was too long–you blacked

hide the

on her lips. “You’re here because this is your

Is that what my destiny is?”

lives to receive. You

smile somehow finding its way to my lips, mirroring hers.” You see, I’m not very pure

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