Chapter 281 Surprise After Surprise

TESSARA

The silence that followed wasn't quiet at all.

None of us moved, none of us spoke—we were all transfixed by the scene before us.

There, on the throne that once ruled over Monserros with cruelty and corruption, a mother and her son sat frozen in their final embrace. The two of them had become stone, captured in the moment of their twisted reconciliation. His head bent against her chest, he