Chapter 0694

Unless...

"Let me speak to my wife," I choked out urgently. "I want to at least see her, let her know I'm alive and that I love her before..." I couldn't force out the hideous words, but I didn't need to. "Please," I said, softening my voice a little, "I know you're not so cruel as to deny us closure." But her once beautiful features twisted with sudden bitterness. "Your wife will not be coming here," she said. "There's no need for her anymore. And after the ceremony, you won't even remember she existed. Your mind will be free."

"Free?" I hissed. "What are you saying, Mila?"

Mila smirked. "It's a simple ritual," she said. "With a few spells and some potions, you'll forget your past. Everything you've ever known will be right here, with me. You won't feel any pain, because your wife will have never existed in your mind."

My chest heaved with a sudden fury. I tried to lunge to my feet and reach for Mila, but it was too late; the silver ropes had made me weak. She didn't even flinch.

Rough hands were on me again then, wrenching my arms behind my back to rebind my lacerated wrists with more searing silver rope. I roared in agony until a ringing blow to the head from an unknown source sent me reeling, my senses spinning sickeningly again.

up fatherless. I never should have come here, but

way, I had

my battered body. The fabric was cool against my skin,

finished, they dragged me back to my all-too-familiar cell and threw me down half-conscious onto the icy floor. As if my

my skin still smoldering beneath my shimmering new clothes, the cell door crashed deafeningly shut. I didn't move from where they had thrown

case again, I couldn't

she breathed, fiery eyes

separating us. One delicate hand extended as if to caress my face. I recoiled sharply on instinct, my lips curling back in a

I thought I had known evil before now

it was the fact that, in just a few short hours, I might not even remember Nina...

slender hands gripping the silver bars of my cell. "Just imagine it-our dynasty reborn from the ashes! Such glory

sick horror roiled through me. She was fanatical, unhinged, utterly convinced that her plan was

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