KAIA’S POV
It was like everything inside the arena went still. Like the wind itself had stopped blowing. Like time had stopped moving.
I stared at Agatha with my mouth wide open in shock, and the words she had just spoken echoed in my ears like a thunderclap I couldn’t unhear.
“I gave him up.”
What in the name of Moonveil itself?
She gave him up for adoption? But… WHY???
As far as I knew, Elder Agatha wasn’t a bad person. So why on earth would she do something like that? Why would she give somebody else’s child up for adoption?
Or.... Did his birth mother approve it?
No one moved.
Not a single soul dared to breathe too loudly.
Elder Silas took a step forward, his face twisted in disbelief. “What… what did you just say?”
Agatha’s eyes glistened slightly with unshed tears as she n
