Elara's POV
Orion's face went cold. "Look at yourself. Stubborn. Petty. Making threats. The law already ruled on Celeste. What exactly do you think this accomplishes? You think you can threaten me with breaking the bond, and I'll throw away my conscience and go execute her myself? Wake up. I'm not Samuel. I don't lose my mind over a woman. And I'm not going to forget how to be a decent man just because you're holding a knife to my pride."
I laughed. Cold. And I meant every second of it. In that moment, he disgusted me. And he was a little pathetic too.
A man standing in a courtroom, still trying to sound like the reasonable one, when everyone in that room had just watched him pick his mistress over the woman carrying his blood.
My voice came out strangely calm.
"You're right. You're t
