Chapter 1402: Unfair Advantage
With a hurricane of darkness, Raven lunged towards Shin.
Eisha intercepted her in the same breath, a dagger held in reverse grip above her head. The collision sent a tremor through her arms and drove her heels into the ground, but she held.
Northern didn’t move.
He could have. He saw Raven clearly, read the killing intent before she’d even shifted her weight. But he let it play out. He wanted to see what his mother would do, what his father was worth to the people around him when the bill finally came due.
Eisha held on, her arms shaking against the force of a Paragon. She pierced Raven with a glare that could have cut glass.
Raven leaned her weight into the clash, pressing down. Glaring back.
"What are you doing? He committed the sin of giving birth to me. It is only right to be punished by death. If anyone would defend him, let him defend himself."
Eisha gritted her teeth. The power of a Paragon was not something she could simply shrug off the way she had before. Raven’s strength bore down on her until her wrists trembled and her grip turned white on the dagger’s handle.
She looked up through the strain.
"I’m his wife. I have every reasonable right in this world to stop you. As much as he has been a wretched fellow, deserving of death, yes. But he is my husband and the father to my children." Her voice dropped. "You will not lay a finger on him."
Raven tilted her head. Her pupils dilated, something cold and disturbing settling behind them.
"But you let him get beaten just now..."