CADE
Hannah had been silent all this time as the tears just kept flowing down her cheeks. But now there was something swirling in the depths of her eyes that made me terrified of her for a moment.
It was anger. Pure, undiluted anger.
It was the anger of a girl humiliated all her life. The anger of a girl forced to listen to people call her father a traitor. It was the anger from being faced with the same fate as her father.
"I'll duel with Julia," Hannah said, wiping her tears.
"Hannah," I said, almost shouting to be heard over my brothers protests. "This is a bad idea. Think of what you're about to do-"
"They should have thought about it before falsely accusing my father and then trying to kill me," she said in a cold, detached voice.
"It's not like there's an alternative to this,"
