Miranda's POV
Those days on the run were the hardest. Darius soon discovered that we had played him and he was more inflamed because of his fragile ego.
He sent his men after us in groups. His people plucked my companions up like weeds.
Every single one of them…
One after the other.
Until there was just me with my baby cradled in my arms.
And I knew they would come for us too.
Darius would show no mercy even to an innocent child, he was that much of a monster and I knew it.
That was when I had to make the hardest decision of my life.
Giving up my daughter.
I dropped her at an orphanage, waiting until I had attracted the attention of one of the caretakers before fleeing and hiding, seeing how she adapted to the place before I moved on. I knew I could not be there for long.
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