Korvus’s POV
Unseen and unheard, I trailed her like a shadow. From the moment Kelilah left her chambers, I had followed in silence, a phantom in the dark, watching her every move as she roamed the ancient corners of the palace library. She had no idea I was there—no idea how much depended on her not reading what she was about to discover.
And then I saw it—
Her fingers reached for the aged, crumpled piece of white parchment, hidden within the pages of a forgotten tome. Her eyes narrowed as curiosity overtook her. I knew that look. I had seen it once before… in the eyes of the woman who doomed us all.
Panic surged through me like ice in my veins. No… not this paper. Not now. Not her. If she reads it, everything would unravel. The fragile threads holding our twisted fates together would
