The Unthinkable Choice

PRIMUS VALERIUS’S POV

Those words hit me like a blade through the ribs.

I froze.

For a second, I thought I’d imagined it — that maybe it was just the ringing in my head—

No, what the fuck am I even thinking?

No part of me would ever think such a thing.

But the voice was real. Familiar and loud.

I turned my gaze to him slowly.

He was standing right behind me.

Tall, blue-thick-skinned, horns high