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Chapter 38: A Bite of Betrayal

The scent of blood was the first thing I sensed.

Not mine. Not his. But sharp, clean, and with a tang of something bitter — lust, power, maybe cruelty. I didn't know. I just knew it was making me ill.

The court was convened once again in the grand hall, all of us dressed in obsidian silk and r...