SPECIAL CHAPTER: TEAGAN
The cell was colder than it had been before.
Or maybe it just felt that way now. Now that I had nothing left to do but sit here and wait for them to come for me.
I pressed my back against the stone wall and pulled my knees up to my chest. The position did nothing to warm me. But it made me feel smaller. Less present. Like if I curled up tight enough, maybe I could disappear entirely.
I had failed.
Not just today. Not just in the study, when I had tried to save my boy Ronan and ended up making everything worse.
I had failed years ago.
The moment I made the choice to lie with Aldric. The moment I let him convince me that my husband was the problem. The moment I agreed to help him cover it all up.
I had set Ronan on this path.
I had made him what he was.
And now he was going to die for it.
The thought made something twist violently in my chest. Sharp and hot and impossible to breathe through.
