Amelia
There were no more tears.
I was numb.
I felt nothing.
Not even anger.
He had been the reason I had been ripped from my family. The reason I had suffered through years of counselling. The reason I had had no one to teach me how to use my powers until the oracle found me. A frightened, scared outcast.
Everything bad I had ever gone through had been because of him. And I had let him … the thought sent bile rushing into my throat. I hadn’t just let him bed me, I had let him conquer me totally and what was worse. I had enjoyed it. I had thought what I was feeling was real, that maybe, just maybe I could forgive him. That I might be able to help him break the councils hold over him and give his son his dragon back.
I was a fool.
He was nothing but a puppet.
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