Chapter 4: Their Child
>>Aelin
Draegon's cold gaze pierced through me as he turned, his expression devoid of the warmth he offered me before.
Something felt off—so deeply, devastatingly off. He looked at me as though I were a stranger, someone he didn't want to see at all.
"This is Ruoxy," he said, his voice calm. He gestured to the fox spirit beside him, her golden eyes glinting with pride as she stood tall at his side. "I'm going to marry her."
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It was like a blow from a thunderbolt.
The room spun around me. His words crashed over me drowning out the cheers of the demons that erupted in approval. My eyes flicked to his horns, now larger, grander, and more imposing than I remembered—bigger even than the Demon Queen's.
I couldn't breathe.
How could he do this to me?
For him, I had done everything. I had endured the endless isolation, the whispers, the scorn of the demons. I had buried my own fears and walked into the unknown because of the promises he made to me. Because of him, I lost the one thing that had brought me joy, and I suffered in silence to uphold the fragile truce that tethered our worlds together.
All I had were his words...