Chapter 121

• Kelilah’s POV
• The carriage rattled softly against the uneven path, but inside, there was nothing but suffocating silence. Rita sat alone—or so she thought. Her face was pale, void of any emotion, her hands clutching the folds of her dress tightly in her lap. For the first time in years, she truly felt it—loneliness. A hollow, biting loneliness that no amount of love or presence around her could erase.
• King Korvus. Selena. They had successfully stripped her of the ability to feel warmth, even with her loved ones surrounding her.