When His Grief Was a Lie

s, left me with a heavy legacy:

, Ethan, chose another, leaving me

of supposed care, until

only for it to shatter, leaving me

, seemingly heartbrok

e price for saving his life, a s

tting: my babies were sacrifices, their esse

strous lie, meticulously designed to en

an a breeding tool fo

ing, my parents' old locket pulsed with an ethe

demanded a ritual-a brutal exchange

time, the ritual

d the spectral embrace of my six lost childr

r my freedom, an