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She wouldn’t be able to do it. She would
fail in that, even if she outlasted Maeve.
Outlasted what she might have glimpsed
lay beneath the queen’s skin. If that had been
real at all.
Against Erawan, there had been little hope.
But against Maeve as well ...
Silent tears pooled in her mask.
It didn’t matter. She wasn’t leaving this
place. This box.
She would never again feel the buttery
warmth of the sun on her hair, or a sea-kissed
breeze on her cheeks.
She couldn’t stop crying, ceaseless and
relentless. As if some dam had cracked open
inside her the moment she’d seen the blood
dribble down Maeve’s face.
She didn’t care if Cairn saw the tears,
smelled them.
Let him break her until she was bloody