-Laelia-
We had never been close to our uncle, our father’s brother. He ruled further north and didn’t have the same power as our father, but I had never heard of any bad blood between them. What Erika was saying couldn’t be true. Our uncle would never get her pregnant. Why would he?
“You’re lying,” I said.
“No, I’m not,” she replied calmly. “But you can ask your brother. Ask him who rescued him from slavery and has been aiding him all this time. Ask him who tried to save you from Ashes after your visit to the North.”
My uncle… James… They had tried to get me shortly after I married Ashes. After our visit to the North, I had been k!dnapped from our tent by northerners. I looked at my brother, almost scared. This was all so overwhelming. I couldn’t believe it, and yet, who else? Who els
