Chapter 90

HAZEL

“I had to break,” I murmured through the tears under my breath.

“She knew what waited and she offered her life, she told me to do what I needed to end this. Before you came I placed a flower in your sister’s chest, close to her heart, it’s the only way it worked.”

I furiously wiped the tears away.

“How what worked?”

“The flower contains a natural poison that stops the heart but the effects are reversible if treated in time. When we left I had a guard take her to where she is now, she was treated, brought back, and is being looked after.”

“My mom—”

“Gave her life to help you.”

My mother and I were close when I was younger before my mind was fully developed and I couldn’t smell the bullshit that I was being forced into but even when I learned, I still loved her. She and my father only taught me what they knew, it wasn’t their fault that I wanted something else. She was the one who brought me up to think with my head before believin