With a sad, reluctant breath, I nodded. “Okay.”
As Prince Xaden and I departed the banquet hall, I couldn’t help but spare one last glance at Sarah. Despite everything, she was still the only blood sister I’d ever known. If things had been different, there might have been a version of reality where we liked each other… where we could have been friends.
But all I saw when I looked at Sarah at that moment was pure hatred, written all over the shadows of her face and the dark depths of her eyes, and it ran deeper and stronger than anything I’d ever seen on her before.
A chill ran down my spine.
It didn’t seem to matter that I’d chosen to spare her from a night in the dungeon. To her, I was still the root cause of all her misfortunes, her ruined future. And there was nothing I could ever d
