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“Where’s Mareina?”
Everyone remained silent, their unease practically cloying in the air.
Dread sank its talons into my gut.
Finally, Pomona’s throat worked on a rough swallow.
“She’s… She…”
“Miroslav took her and the blonde male somewhere,” Thalia finished for her as she sidled beside myolana kah’hei.
The ember of my jealousy and rage flared to life once more.
Had my ownsoulboundtried to kill me? And now left me forMalekai?
A flurry of questions infested my mind, each more crazed than the last. None of which they could answer.
“And … Zurie?”
The female who was apparently my mother.
At least by birth.
The very female I’d sent Mareina to kill. The Queen I’d loathed and spent the entirety of my life seeking to destroy.
All because the female I’d trusted most in this world, the one that Ihadunwittingly called mother and had raised me, had also lied to me and helped pave the way for me to murder the woman who’d birthed me. Even if she was a foul creature and deserved to die…I deserved to know.
And my soulbound had known.
How cruel was fate the people I should be able to trust most in the world had lied to me for as long as they had known me?
“She’s in the dungeons… We thought you might want to… speak with her,” Roderick said gently.
So alive.
I couldn’t help but wonder if that had been deliberate or unintentional on Mareina’s part. Though considering the fact that my mate was a veteran of murder, I found it hard to believe that she’d make such a mistake.
A minuscule and traitorous part of me found relief in that. That perhaps Mareina hadn’t killed her for my sake. And due to the fact that, no matter how horrific Zurie was, I felt a visceral need to meet the woman from whose flesh I’d been born.
“The dungeons…In her own palace?”
“Miroslav and Malekai ordered the palace guards away from the western wing of the palace… The dungeon is in the north wing. Where we are now.”
“So… No one knows yet…?”
“No… But… Suspicions will start rising if we don’t do something soon.”
“Take me to her.”
Thalia seemed to know her way around this part of Zurie’s palace. And not a soul in sight. I could only hope that Miroslav and Malekai would manage to keep anyone from asking questions for the time being. It had been such a remarkably successful and seamless ordeal, it seemed… Too good to be true.
The dungeon, to my surprise, was empty. Either they’d cleared the dungeons, too, or Zurie didn’t keep any prisoners.
She kills them all,My Knowingness whispered.
Yes… That seemed highly probable.
Even with the palladium collar Mareina had put around her neck, I could feel her magic. The palladium collar just kept it out of her reach.
