Chapter 401: Reconciliation

Astrid's POV

The words hung in the air, heavy and sharp, cutting deeper than any blade. I felt Killian's tension beside me, the barely contained storm beneath his surface threatening to erupt.

"She introduced you... to the Rogue King?" Killian's voice was low, trembling with suppressed rage.

His golden eyes bore into Andros, demanding answers, demanding a reason to justify what was unfathomable.

Andros's gaze flickered, the indifference cracking ever so slightly. He leaned his head back against the cold stone wall, exhaling slowly.

"She didn't tell me why at first," he said, his tone eerily calm. "She just... showed up. Out of nowhere."

The faint light from the torch above us cast long shadows across his face, and for a moment, I saw something raw in his eyes-something I couldn't ignore.

"She said she wanted to help me," Andros continued, his voice softening, almost as if he were speaking to himself. "Said she didn't want me to rot away in exile. That she could... save me."

Killian's eyes narrowed. "Save you?" He spoke bitterly. "From what? From the consequences of your own actions?"

Andros turned his gaze to me, his expression unreadable. "From myself," he said simply.

him to use

surprised expression, I knew he had the same thoughts as me

that's what she meant by saving you? Or did she promised you something in exchange of working for her?" His tone was accusatory, laced with the deep-seated hurt he was struggling to keep

right off the bat,

believed that I would understand him better. "I don't trust her. If you know me I don't like to

like a prince, and he is raised

then why did you do so in

She kept coming back, refusing to accept

changed?" I asked, my voice colder now, unwilling to let him fool as

told me she saw herself in me. That I was heading down the same path she did a path of mistakes, of

shoulders loosened as he stared at Andros,

of his mother that Rowena didn't let us

introduced you to

the enemy and

as he felt frustrated by our questions, our doubts of his

his fists and scoffed,

betrayed all of us!" Killian yelled, his face turned red in anger. "She sided

things. How could any of that not be her

separating him from us. I instantly grabbed Killian's arm, in fear that Andros

knew what happened to Liora!" Andros shouted back. "Rowena made a deal with the rogues that's why she owed them, and this was the payment

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