“After everything I have done to get to this point,” I press out, my voice desperate and broken. “After all the risks I have taken and all the miracles I have already pulled off, after all the promises that I have made to Isera and Alistair, this can’t be how it ends. Betrayed by my own people!” I stare at Lavendera as pain cuts through my chest. “By someone I thought was my friend.”
