Chapter 500:

“If you can give me a child, Riel, I will lay the entire world at your feet.”

Her trembling worsened, her teeth clattering. If only he knew… if only he knew how close they had come.

We agreed to bury it, didn’t we? To leave it in the past and live as if it never happened?

That’s how she had lived. Going through each day as if she were whole, as if she weren’t splintered inside. As if she hadn’t lost the most precious gift the gods could ever give her.

Losing her child had forced her to grow past the pain of their severed bond, beyond the heartbreak that had nearly destroyed her. It had forced her to become stronger, to bury the old Em, the one who had known innocence and hope.

After all, if I hadn’t been so weak, I wouldn’t have lost my child.

Who would have imagined it? That she’d conceive from her first full heat? And who would have thought she would lose it the way she did?

You’re alright,” she whispered, rocking herself. If only the

one knew. Not

secret Emeriel would

who so desperately desired children, who had suffered the loss of his two children—that she had carried his third,

forgive himself… just as she

this burden was hers alone to bear, even if it was

angry. No one knew the

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severed bond. But she

she had worked so hard to build was crumbling around her. The armor she

company, and all the feelings she had buried

five long days, he had borne the pain of venom inside him while it destroyed his organs, all in an effort to save her life. Just the thought of it made her dead heart leap

him all over again. All over again?

It was easy to say, “Give

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