Neveah shook her head slowly, she was going to protest but her voice faltered. Her words stuck in her throat.
The woman... was her mother.
Neveah wished she could deny it. But even if it hadn't been said, the truth was glaring.
Her connection to this woman was something she could feel as surely as she could see it. The moment she had set eyes on her, Neveah's heart pulsed with a deep-rooted ache and that in itself attested to the truth.
But how much of his words were true and how much could she believe? If there was one thing she'd learned since waking up, it was that everyone in the halls of this Eclipse Palace hid secrets and spun the truth to suit their own purposes.
No one could be trusted. Not one of them.
She exhaled an inaudible breath. Standing up straight. "Why are you telling me this?"
