Kingdom of Ash

body. “Please.”
Would it be a mercy—to kill her? Would it
be a worse crime to leave her here, with
Erawan? Enslaved to him and the Valg demon
inside her?
Damaris did not answer his silent
questions.
And he let his hand fall away from the
blade entirely as he stared down at the
weeping girl.
Manon would have ended it. Freed her in
the only way left. Chaol would have taken her
with him and damned the consequences. Aelin
... He didn’t know what she would have done.
Who do you wish to be?
He was not any of them. He was—he was
nothing but himself.
A man who had known loss and pain, yes.
But a man who had known friendship and joy.
The loss and pain—they had not broken