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.

it instantly, leaving me exposed. In that split second, she seized me in her iron grip–her strength never ceased to

to me,

he had made it.

there

on the floor of a familiar room–a place that had once haunted me. It seemed my

had escaped from. And

most.

cough broke the silence, reminding me I wasn’t alone. Julia sat on her bed,

“How…”

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

to hide the trembling. “Why am I here, Julia?”

still remaining on her lips. “You’re here because this is your destiny; the sooner you stop fighting it, the better.”

that

a great honor, one many would give their lives to receive. You

anymore,” I said, a smile somehow finding its

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