Chapter 51: A Forbidden Affair
Emma’s POV
Silas’s words hung in the air like a curse.
"Choose, Emma."
The room seemed to close in around me, the walls breathing in time with my own ragged breaths. The firelight flickered violently, casting jagged shadows along the scorched walls.
I couldn’t move.
I couldn’t think.
Because Silas had done what he always did.
He had made himself the only option.
He had taken a story that should have been about me and twisted it into a decision I didn’t want to make.
If I went with him, he would release Everdawn’s hold on Callum and Nate.
But that wasn’t the full truth.
Silas never made deals. He made traps.
And this—this was the biggest one of all.
I swallowed hard, my hands curling into fists. “And if I refuse?”
Silas sighed, as if the questio
