Chapter 311

The woman's face twisted into something grotesque as pain ripped through her belly. "You... you dare kill me?" she croaked, her voice broken, trembling with raw terror.

Thalia's wide, dark eyes blinked innocently, almost doe-like. She looked, for one fleeting second, like a harmless girl playing at rebellion-fragile, harmless, a rabbit trembling in a den of wolves.

"Yes," she answered softly, almo