Trust Me

Veyron scoffed, his lips curling into a smirk. "Loyalty? What is that to someone who has already lost everything?"

Sia's fingers twitched, nails biting into her palms.

"You spoke of reclaiming our home," he continued, his voice almost pitying, "but deep down, we both knew that was nothing more than a dream."

A dream?

That was all their struggle had been to him?

Veyron's gaze sharpened as he struck where it hurt the most.

"And what's worse," he said, his tone darkening, "we both know it was just to cover up your own selfish desires. You just wanted your throne back. The one you lost yourself—pathetically too. And you sacrificed countless lives, all under the pretense that 'they weren't from this world anyway'. Heh, you are nothing but a hypocrite. You are more traitorous than I am."

Sia's breath caught.

Her heart pounded in her chest, not from rage, but from something far colder.