No markers, no headstones, no way to know exactly where each of Sabium’s dead queens lay. Had any of them known just how much of a monster he was? Had they attempted to protect the babies thrust upon them as I had? If they had tried, then they had failed. None of their sons were here. No, they were all lost to the sea, their throats slit, their power drained. And the women who’d come before me were buried beneath my feet. I stepped farther into the enclosed graveyard. It wasn’t difficult to imagine those queens standing next to me, invisible as they screamed their vengeance. “I’ll make him
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