Karren’s POV
I dismissed the guards with a simple wave.
They bowed, turned, and dragged her broken form away, bloodied, weak, yet still defiant.
I didn’t let my expression change, even as her whispered words echoed behind them.
“I should have murdered you instead.”
The door slammed shut.
For a while, I sat motionless on the throne, elbows resting on the armrests, eyes staring past the marble floor, past the pillars, past the memory of her lying there like a discarded doll.
I couldn’t move. My fingers clenched the lion-head carvings on the throne so tightly the wood groaned beneath them.
I know she hated me now… that's what I wanted.
This was a strategy for her to stop loving me.
I only want to protect her heart.
I was glad she finally said it
“I wanted to bewitch him.”
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