he had seen her vision, all too clearly. An ambitious, royal-blooded kuvari who had known she could never have defeated her own mother in single combat… and so had used a love affair with him in Nozva Rozkveta to try to learn Mati’s weaknesses, in a bid to seize the throne of Nozva Rozkveta. Her plan had relied on making the Offering to him, then dueling to join Mati’s Quorum—but he’d learned about Yelena’s lies first and had told Mati. Instead, Mati had betrothed Zoran to Yelena’s mother. And that had been the end of that. “Your… ‘vision’ was a pack of lies,” he said casually. “And I wasn’t
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