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Chapter 176 - Don't accept the family

Eleanor's POV

I wasn't surprised. The moment I'd woken in this cold palace of a room, I'd known. After the spectacle at the track… where else would I be but back in the clutches of the family whose blood I carried? The Shadowmeres had finally reeled in their stray.

The woman—my mother—watched me, waiting for a reaction. "Well?" she prompted, her tone sharpening. "Have you nothing to say?"

A hollow, bitter laugh threatened to escape. I swallowed it down. "What do you want to hear?" My voice was flat, leaving a weary, simmering anger. "That I'm thrilled to meet the woman who allowed a prophecy to condemn her own child? That I'm overjoyed to learn my mother volunteered me as a… a vacant house for some ancient monster? That I love the idea of being erased for the sake of your family's cruel beliefs and schemes?"

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