CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE LAST GOODBYE
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Before Liora could answer, before I could even process that she was real and alive and standing in front of me, heavy footsteps thundered down the corridor.
Multiple sets, moving fast, purposeful.
"Hide," I hissed at her but she'd already melted back into the shadows like she'd never been there at all.
The door slammed open hard enough to c***k against the wall, two guards entered, dragging something between them, someone, and my breath caught when I saw who it was.
Kael could barely stand, his legs giving out every few steps so the guards had to haul him forward.
His face was a mass of bruises, purple and black and sickly yellow, blood dried on his split lips and chin.
One eye was swollen completely shut, the other barely open, his da
