Chapter Thirty-Two
{Jonathan} With my right hand shackled to the damp, cold wall, and my left hand broken, clenched to my chest, I look straight into Raphael’s eyes. There’s pain, and betrayal, all over them. He has his hands clenched to fists, and I see him breathe heavily. ‘It does not have to be this way, little brother’, he says. ‘What has made you so deviant?’ I shrug, and ignore the pain that stings through my entire upper body. ‘Shane was like a brother to us, Raphael. To me, family means more than royalty.’ The day I came back from Lady Ponty’s residence, excited over my night with Maya, I overheard Raphael and Mike talk. They had been informed by the King to use Maya, to retrieve the King’s daughter and Shane. The King had plans to behead her brother, for all to see, to make a statement. Especial
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