SERIS~
“You have to wake up, Seris.” Someone shook me, rattling my bones.
My eyes sprang open, agony threading through my body in an instant. Panicking, I looked around to see my uncle and Lily standing over me, their faces carved with worry.
“Uncle—” The word died on my lips as I let out a sharp howl. It all came back to me with every bolt of pain. The funeral, the coronation, the picture… Sylus’ judgment. I should have been dead by now.
Yet there was no one else around. Confusion speared me as I writhed against the searing heat that raked my body.
“Uncle—”
Tears filled his eyes as he pulled me into his arms like he used to when I was a little girl. “I could not go through with it. I cannot kill you, no matter what some Alpha says.”
Emotions clogged my throat. He had defied
