DAMIAN
It wasn't my intention to eavesdrop, but I couldn't just walk past when I saw both of them together. I wanted to know what they were talking about, what they were scheming, so I stood at the top of the stairs and listened.
Nothing could have prepared me for Elara’s words.
And I didn't know where this anger came from, but it was sudden and consuming and burned my chest. Seeing Kaidora stand there like that, shaking, tears dropping from her eyes, I had this urge to… hurt Elara.
In the two years that she’s been here, I have never once had that thought, not when she tried to force herself on me when I was at my weakest, not when she turned our father against us and made him not listen to a word we say. I’ve never wanted to lay a single finger on her, even when she burned what was
