Perhaps it had been that dig, or perhaps it had been Celeste’s embarrassing affection for her older sister’s boyfriend, or perhaps just a growing desire to do the right thing, but she had made her decision then. That night, she secretly severed Delphine’s enchantments on Damien, and he finally escaped the temple after moons of imprisonment and torture. Celeste knew from experience that escaping abduction did not inspire a desire to return to it, and there was no amount of pathetic that she could play at to convince Damien to help her now, even if she told him she’d been the reason he was
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