Lilith pov

“I don’t want to die, so, please, please—just execute him alone.”

Everyone turned to Seraphina in shock the moment those words left her lips. Even the elders who, only moments ago, had been demanding Kael and his family’s deaths looked beyond stunned.

They watched as she stumbled backward, stopping only inches away from where Claude stood, shaking her head as tears spilled down her face. She pointed at Kael and, without hesitation, said that only he should be beheaded for what had happened.

I was certain everyone in the hall felt the same thing in that moment—disbelief.

It was one thing for a stranger to say such words....