Page 238 of Kingdom of the Two Moons

“She is your mate. You wouldn’t.”

“I don’t care what she is other than a liability.”

Riven shakes his head. “I know what you are. I know that you care, Caryan. I know you.”

He doesn’t see Caryan’s punch coming. It shatters his ribs, piercing his lungs. Riven lets go and crouches into a ball, hissing against the devastating pain.

Caryan just looks down at him coldly. “If you knew me indeed, you would know that I do not forgive betrayal.”

“I did not betray you, Caryan,” Riven hisses between clenched teeth.

“Did you not? I do not need to slice open your veins and look into your blood to know that you let her go. Thatyoutold her to go to the demons.”

Riven says nothing, because he can’t. He can’t even breathe with his ribs shattered. Caryan might just end him here.

And it is alright.

But eventually, Caryan lifts his eyes and strides toward the cave’s mouth.

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