Chapter 190 Hundred And Ninety
- ARIELS POV.
- The council chamber emptied slowly, leaving only the echoes of whispered judgments and Esther’s fading footsteps as she was dragged toward her banishment. I stood there frozen, my whole body trembling, unable to breathe.
- I thought Ryan would walk away. That after everything, after years of lies and silence, he’d turn his back and leave me to drown in the shame I had built for myself.