Chapter 370: The long game - revelations...

Miriam

"What the fuck is going on?" Ramsey snapped, staring at us. "Did I miss a memo? I thought Cassidy was fighting for him?"

"Well," I rubbed at the back of my neck as my gaze strayed to Lyla, who nodded quietly. "There’s something you all need to know. About how we got to this stage and why Circe is still alive and Cassidy is here with us."

Ramsey turned to me, his face still pale from Xander’s attack, but his eyes filled with curiosity. "What do you mean?"

I took a deep breath, knowing that what I was about to reveal would alter their perception of everything that had happened. "It began when Xander kidnapped Lyla. I went to the Moon Temple to meet with Mother Liora, to show her the picture of the markings that had appeared on Lyla’s back and to also help me understand what was going on."

Ramsey’s eyes widened in shock. "She was kidnapped? When? How did I not know about this?"

I nodded grimly. "It happened long before we came back to Blue Ridge. Around that time, Lyla left. You weren’t together and..." I trailed off, turning to look at Lyla.

"It happened so long ago, my love," Lyla finished, flashing Ramsey a smile. "I forgot to mention it."

"But that kidnapping was the catalyst for everything that followed afterwards," I added.

"I discovered strange markings on Lyla’s back, and Mother Liora took one look at those markings and knew immediately who Lyla was," I continued. "She revealed to me that Lyla was the Moonsinger, destined to either save our world or watch it burn. But she also told me something else—something that nearly broke my heart."

I paused, seeing the tension building in everyone’s faces.

"She told me the interpretation of the original prophecy: Lyla was destined to die. That the only way to defeat the Dark One was through her death."

to the White Mountain Council," Ramsey interrupted, his voice tight with emotion, "Lyla already

Ramsey. Xander was the first person who told me and wouldn’t shut up about it during my captivity. He was so proud of having found

up the story. "Mother Liora devised a plan—a way to turn Xander’s certainty against him. We decided to dance to his tune, to make him believe he was in control while we slowly undermined

frowned. "What do you

incident. You know about that, right?" I

he didn’t take her powers directly," I continued, giving no further explanation on the orb thingy, "he created a psychic link between them. He could sense her thoughts, fuel

fool was the hardest thing I ever had to do. Constantly acting like I wanted nothing to do with my powers, like

manipulate her through their link, he was transferring small amounts of his power to her. He thought he

Cassidy," I said,

shame and pride. "I was bitter at first," she admitted. "All I wanted was to kill Lyla and claim my place as Ramsey’s mate. But after the Harvest Moon festival, after seeing Ramsey’s reaction to everything that happened, I

Mother Liora reached out to me. She told me I had an important role to play in bringing the Dark One’s reign to an

perfect unwitting tool for Xander’s manipulation," I explained. "He thought he was using her feelings against Lyla, but really, she was feeding him false information, making him overconfident,

tried to kill, Lyla," Ramsey fumed. "She stabbed her. Was that supposed to be some grand

in shame. "I had to do it to remove every doubt the Dark One had in me. He was right there watching everything.

crazy," Ramsey shook his head, laughing dryly. "I don’t know if I want to keep

play as well. Mother Liora asked me to help create confusion around the

continued. "I began making up fake prophecies and had them scattered throughout various archives and libraries. Conflicting accounts of what the Moonsinger’s destiny truly was, false information about binding rituals,

asked, clearly struggling to understand the

knew Xander was connected to Lyla through the orb," I said. "He could access her thoughts, her plans, her knowledge. So

of it was real. We planted all of those documents, knowing that Lyla would eventually find them and that

at me in amazement. "You mean the binding ritual, the requirements for the sacrifice,

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