Chapter 34
Shock rooted Elaine to the spot, her breath catching in her throat. Her eyes went wide, wider than she thought possible as the kings' words echoed in her head. Their expressions remained unmoved, unaffected, even as her heart thundered like a war drum.
They couldn't mean it.
They couldn't possibly mean it.
"W-why?" she stammered, her voice barely a whisper in the vast, heavy silence that followed. The question trembled from her lips like a leaf in the wind fragile, already...