Chapter 5

ELERA POV

"W-What… what do you mean?"

My voice came out as nothing more than a whisper, trembling so badly I barely recognized it as my own. For a second I convinced myself I had heard her wrong. There was no way the woman I had once called my sister could be saying what I thought she was saying.

Evelyn smiled. Not with guilt. Not with regret. But with satisfaction, the kind that only belonged to someone who had finally achieved everything they'd ever wanted.

"I was the one who planned the rogue attack," she said calmly, as though she were talking about the weather instead of destroying...