Divine Deception

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vesper</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's all my fault.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I had to make the world believe I completed the prophecy.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For both our sakes.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I never meant to hurt Aurelia the way I did.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nor bond her to me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aurelia</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Going from a princess in a tower to a hostage in a witch coven?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It was a hell of a lot worse than anything I'd ever imagined.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While Vesper moved freely I was stuck in a rundown cabin waiting for the witches to decide my fate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I hated it. And I hated her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or at least I </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>wanted</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The truth was more complicated.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cedar</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They should never have come here.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The coven was more dangerous than the palace ever was. And now I couldn't protect them.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never meant to fall for the silver-haired hunter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the more she stayed the more I found myself unable to let anything happen to her or to the vampire brat she kept by her side.</span></p><p></p>