Chapter 27: Found Them Out

The weight of betrayal settled heavily on Jonathan’s chest like a stone, suffocating and relentless. He stood in the grand hall of his family’s ancestral home, the silence pressing against his eardrums louder than any storm. The truth he had uncovered churned inside him with vicious force his mother, the matriarch of their powerful bloodline, had orchestrated Emma’s abduction.

The woman who had raised him with fierce pride and regal grace had crossed a line he never imagined she would. She hadn’t sent an assassin or a rival no, she had done something worse. She had taken the one person who grounded him, who gave his immortal existence meaning, and used her as a pawn to manipulate him into becoming the king she believed he was destined to be.