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.

for it instantly, leaving me exposed. In that split second, she seized me in her iron

snapped to me, his hand reaching–but it

to make a choice, and he had made it. He could

there or how long it

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

back in the castle, the very place I had escaped

most.

I wasn’t alone.

“How…”

here? I brought you, but the trip

clasped my hands together to hide the trembling. “Why am I here, Julia?”

She noted, her smile still remaining on her lips. “You’re here because this is your destiny; the sooner

that what my destiny is?”

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

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

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