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die for it, gods above.”
“I was.” Her words came out cold as steel.
Aedion blinked as she withdrew her hand
from his. Her leg ached and throbbed, but she
managed to sit up. To meet his stare. “I have
been degraded and humiliated in so many
ways, for so many years,” she said, voice
shaking. Not from fear, but from the tidal
wave that swept up everything inside her,
burning alongside the wound in her leg. “But I
have never felt as humiliated as I did when
you threw me into the snow. When you called
me a lying bitch in front of our friends and
allies. Never.” She hated the angry tears that
stung her eyes. “I was once forced to crawl
before men. And gods above, I nearly crawled
for you these months. And yet it takes me
nearly dying for you to realize that you’ve
been an ass? It takes me nearly dying for you
to see me as human again?”