Chapter 17
The Heart's Decision
Elara chooses to break the curse by sacrificing her own chance at love, tricking Armand into drinking a potion that binds the curse to him forever.
The potion sat in a crystal vial on my dressing table, catching the candlelight like liquid amber. I had prepared it according to Dupree's instructions, grinding herbs I could not name into a fine powder, mixing them with wine and something else—something Dupree had called sang de lune, moonblood, though it looked like nothing more than silver-tinted water.
My hands trembled as I stoppered the vial.
Three days had passed since the midnight confrontation. Three days since Armand had confessed his love and his damnation in the same breath. Three days since Seraphina had promised to make me one of them, whether I willed it or not.
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