“Amara,” I mentioned. “Your drama is my drama.”

Karen smiled sweetly and cupped Amara’s cheek. “Are you hungry? I’ve some cookies on the range.”

“I don’t have an enormous urge for food proper now,” Amara mentioned.

Sasha observed Amara wince as she shifted on her ft. “What occurred?”

“He stabbed me.”

Sasha frowned. “Bastard.”

“Sasha,” Karen hissed. “Language.”

Sasha rolled her eyes. “Have you ever heard about Helena?”

Amara shook her head.

“Zella didn’t make it throughout the combat. Seems she sneaked out to see a boy and was killed throughout the raid.”

Amara’s coronary heart fluttered.

I knew they handled her like trash, however she was nonetheless affected by her stepsister’s dying. It confirmed how a lot love she had in her coronary heart. That was one of many many causes I beloved her.

“I have to go by and see them.”

Karen crinkled her nostril, not liking the point out of Helena any greater than I did.

Sasha snorted. “The hell you do.”

Karen tossed her daughter one other irritated look earlier than strolling into the kitchen to carry out a Tupperware container filled with cookies. “Take these with you.”

Amara lifted onto her tiptoes and kissed her cheek. “Thanks for letting me inside. If anybody comes by, you haven’t seen us.”

“I like you, Child Woman.”

“I like you each.”

Sasha hugged her once more earlier than Amara walked out of the door. I dismissed myself, discovering Amara standing on the fringe of the sidewalk that may lead her towards her childhood dwelling.

“Prepared?” I requested.

“As I’ll ever be.”

Amara and I finished on the entrance door of Helena’s home. She raised her hand to knock however stopped. “She doesn’t wish to see me. I don’t wish to see her both.”

“We will depart. You haven’t any ties to them, and no accountability for what occurred to her. It is as much as you.”

The door swung open, and Helena stood on the opposite aspect carrying a black gown and a veil masking her face.

“What within the hell are you doing right here?” she snapped.

Amara shifted into my aspect for consolation. “I heard about Zella—,”

Helena turned her head. “How dare you come right here with reference to Zella. You don’t care that she’s lifeless. You’re the explanation she’s lifeless. Bringing these ungodly issues right here to this kingdom. I can’t anticipate the king to kick you out and by no means allow you to again in.”

Amara’s gaze shifted over Helena’s shoulder to her different stepsister, Stasa. “I’ve known as the guards,” she mentioned proudly. “They’re on their manner.”

I grabbed Amara’s elbow and shifted her behind me. “I’m sorry about your daughter. It ought to have been you.”

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