Everything.
She had given everything for her revenge, but she failed.
Victoria lay in darkness, the slab of iron like a starless night overhead.
She’d awoken there. Had been in here for … a long time.
Long enough she’d relieved herself. Hadn’t cared.
Perhaps it had all been for nothing. The Queen Who Was Promised.
Promised to die or to surrender herself as Luca's pet.
She couldn’t accept it. But she always fails to save those people she loves, even though she forces herself to fight. In the end, she still embraces defeat.
Outlasted what she might have glimpsed lay beneath her skin. If that had been real at all.
Against Luca, there had been little hope.
But just thinking that her mate would suffer death as well … Silent tears pooled in the corner of her eyes.
It didn’t matter. Sh
