“What promises have you made?” Tiberius asked me and I raised my chin as I answered. “Vengeance, death, to find my family and to refuse the fate dealt to me and my husband.” “Husband?” Antonia gasped, and Geraldine’s cries of pride turned into a wail of anguish at the news. I, however, turned to stone beneath the weight of that question, ice spilling through me, but I refused to release the flood of emotions threatening to break free. “Darius became a Vega the morning of the battle,” Xavier murmured in explanation, grief making his voice catch as he spoke. “I’ve never seen him as happy as he
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