STALEMATE

"Shouldn't you kill me too?" Mila asked the king beside her.

Only now did Mila really realize that some information was very important, where it could change someone’s perspective on something.

Just like what was happening now.

After learning what really happened and the undeniable facts from Anna's memory, Mila began to see Liam in a different light.

One might say, she was starting to see Liam as he was a few decades ago, before all the drama and events that had occurred over the past fifty- five years.

Before Anna's death, when the three of them still had a good relationship and there was no prophecy, murder, conspiracy or war involved in it.

Those were the beautiful times that Mila missed.

"Wouldn't the family of a traitor have to bear the punishment for the betrayal along with the traitor?" Mila leaned her head against the glass container behind her and turned to look at Liam, who was sitting right beside her.

"Yes," Liam answered quietly. “But, I made a deal with the elders.”

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