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"She promised me four powerful matesâmates more powerful than Reuben. All I had to do was get her close enough, and she taught me the summoning ritual to call you over. I poisoned and scarred myself because Aurora had too many scars not to draw attention, no matter how much you despised humans. It was the Core that ordered me."
â"Her scars?" Zayne's voice could have frozen the sun.
âSonya let out a keening wail. "The scars," she whispered. "The ones on her body. They weren'tâthey weren't self-inflicted. They weren't from abuse she suffered as a child in some other place."
âMy stomach turned to ice.
â"We did it," Sonya sobbed. "Me and Caspian. We hurt her. For years. Every time she showed signs of strength, every time she tried to fight back, we made sure to remind her she was nothing. We told her she was cursed. We told her she deserved it."
âI couldn't breathe.
