Chapter 3 · free to read
In this hall the truth is not discovered. It is chosen, out loud, by one woman.
She had come prepared for a trial of words, where her name outweighs mine.
A gamble. But I had one thing she did not know I had.
Gelsemium takes the throat before it takes the chest. She flinched a beat too early — at the exact moment she knew it would begin.
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