••{SERAPHINE'S POV}••
The castle halls feel too narrow today.
It feels as if the walls are closing in around me, and the corridors are stretching endlessly in both directions.
My thoughts are anything but quiet.
I couldn't believe my ears when I was told in the dead of night that the castle was attacked and my son was wounded.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I stumbled into his chambers and I saw him laying there, motionless.
Now Azrael's life is balanced on the thinnest edge between life and death. And there are traitors breathing the same air as us.
Everything is falling apart and I feel myself unraveling with it.
My biggest mistake was using my power against my daughter. It is something I've never done since the night I birthed her.
I am Mother Empress of the Empire of Night. I've always prided myself on control. On never letting my emotions cloud my judgement.
But I lost myself today.
