Chapter 119. An Impossible Choice

I stared at the woman, still scared to speak. My heart thumped in my chest and I felt nauseous. 

“You will withdraw the order, that’s what you will do, Sara.” Her voice was firm and shaky at the same time.

“I—I can’t do that.” I shook my head, shaken to the core. 

My aunt chuckled without humor. “Are you hearing yourself? Are you even hearing yourself? So you rather fight for the same people who killed your birth parents and almost destroyed your hometown?” She scoffed. 

“No, I don’t want to do that. But I also don’t want war.”

“War is the answer,” she said in a small cry as she walked closer to me. “War is the answer, Sara. They need to pay. Those people need to pay for what they did. Why can’t you get that?”

“People are dying…”

“Our people died too, Sara. Twenty years ago, we lost our Queen! We lost people when they stole our land. We lost your mother, why don’t you get that?!” She pulled on her hair in frustration, even going as f