E's POV
I was still trying to process everything they had just told me, and saying I was struggling didn't even begin to cover it. Shocked, confused—those words weren't enough either. My thoughts felt scattered, like someone had dumped a thousand pieces of a puzzle in front of me but stolen the picture I needed to put it together.
Hearing that the kingdom wanted me dead because I was half-human, half-phoenix? That wasn't just harsh; it was ridiculous. Completely absurd. They weren't calling for me to be sent away from the kingdom or hidden, which would have made a little more sense.
No, they wanted me killed. Executed, erased, as if I was nothing more than some mistake they could wipe out.
I sat there in silence, staring at the wall, my hands glowing faintly in my lap, and I couldn't stop thinking how insane it sounded. Technically, I had done nothing wrong. I didn't ask to exist, and yet somehow I had become their enemy just because I was proof of a law broken years ago.
