Alaric Miranda’s lips parted, her voice trembling. “Your highness—” “I said shut up!” The silence that followed was suffocating. “Till date,” I continued, my tone dropping to something cold and venomous, “you are the worst parents I’ve encountered. And the daughter you actually did raise is proof of that. Tetra only knows how to plot, scheme, and ruin lives. She has no regard for anyone but herself and is ugly to the core. Every child is born innocent but for her to have turned out this way? It’s both your faults.” My words came out sharper, heavier and driven by an anger that I didn’t bother restraining. “I have no idea how you can both live with yourselves knowing you’ve failed both your daughters in completely different ways. I feel absolute disgust having to endure the sight of y

