Amara took a deep breath, her voice breaking as she recounted the memory that had haunted her for so long. “He attacked me,” she said, tears streaming down her face. “He said he’d rather see me dead than let me become Luna. I was terrified, Darius. I didn’t know what to do. I tried to push him away, just to get him to stop… and he bumped. He hit his back into a tree, and he… he died.”
She choked back a sob, her whole body shaking with the weight of her confession. “I don’t know how it happened. I never meant for it to happen. I was just trying to protect myself. I was so scared.”
Darius’s face was a mask of shock and disbelief. His mind was reeling, trying to process everything she had said. “Why didn’t you tell me this before?” he asked, his voice quieter now, filled with a deep sense o
