by Ember Wraith

The Knife on the Bed

Cyrene of Half-Vale has not seen Vael since the night the river burned. Three years later, she wakes to a knife she did not place on her own bed and the certainty of who left it there. The contract that follows is the one she swore she'd never take, with the only person she ever trusted enough to lie to. Seven chapters of slow betrayal and slower forgiveness, ending the only way it could.