Chapter 74

I think the world despises me. I think fate has been playing a cruel trick on me since my first breath. Aurora stood before me, her eyes on mine, her body trembling. She looked so pale and so thin, like the years hadn’t been kind to her. I gazed around the room. Will stared at me, walking toward my side slowly, the gold armor shining with every step.

“Won’t you say anything?” he asked, as if he were waiting for something. That’s when I realized it. He knew—they all knew. Everyone who stood here knew of Aurora, yet I was the last to know. They had brought me here because they wanted me to find out—they had planned this.

What should I do? My life seemed to be collapsing around me, as if a black hole were sucking me deep within its bowels and leaving me defenseless. They were waiting for me to speak, but I bit my tongue. What was there to say? What should I ask? Did it even matter anymore? They