Ashe Pov
I couldn’t even begin to explain how painful this was. The betrayal cut deep inside me as I shuddered, feeling the power building inside me, taking over, turning me. I…I thought there was a chance she wouldn’t really do it. I thought there was a chance that Rhett was wrong. Surely we were brothers? Surely he was the one who was deceived? I kept replaying those words over and over in my mind, hoping desperately that there was a part of her, a small part of her that cared for me. She raised me, after all, my mother. She was my mother. But as she lifted me on the chains above the fountain and I stared into her eyes, there was nothing but humor about the task about to be bestowed on me, and it was then, as I was lowered into the fountain with fresh wounds pouring down my back…it
