---- "Don''t listen to him, Dad! Shes our only hope! You can''t" Her words fractured into echoes as Adrian crumbled, dropping to his knees, his hands trembling as they covered his face.


    Dad! Look at me! But Adrian couldn''t.


    The Strong King and role model I had always looked up to was down on his knees.


    T saw the moment his spirit broke, the weight of this unholy choice crushing him As for me? I wasn''t broken.


    T was fury incarnate.


    A fire broke out inside me that was not going to be tamed easily.


    My eyes burn red in fury.


    Ishot to my feet, my fists trembling with the barely contained storm inside me.


    My gaze locked on.


    ---- Chapter 513 Gerald "You fucking bastard," I growled, my voice a guttural snarl, He smirked, as if my rage amused him.


    T wanted to lunge, to tear him apart limb by limb, to wipe that smug expression off his face forever.


    But I couldn''t move.


    Not because of fear.


    No, I was long past that.


    Tt was her.


    Zariyan, Her goddamn strength that held her upright when the rest of us were falling apartit rooted me in ce This was not the right time or ce.


    We are weak.


    Outnumbered.


    "Gerald," I spat, my voice low and lethal.


    ---- "Pray you never find yourself alone with me." He onlyughed, his amusement sickening.


    "Oh, Damien," he drawled, seething .


    "I look forward to it." Tick tock Adrian.


    The choice is yours.


    With ast fleeting look at Adrian at his knees, Gerald turns around to walk away.


    Zariyan looks helplessly at her father.


    And then she looks at me.


    Those brave brown eyes were brimming with tears Don''te.


    Please.


    She mouths the words to me and it was nothing less than a dagger into my heart.


    With ast sad smile, she turns to walk away with the monsters following behind her and I couldn''t help just stare at her back.


    How can we leave her to die ---- But if we give Alexia to Gerald? He will kill her and all our hopes to save the humanity will dic.


    But if we don''t What are the chances we will get that thing out of her system and still be able to save her.


    No! Fuck! Tt wasnt a choice.


    It was a murder.


    And the worst thing was that we had to choose.


    Princess Zariyan or the entire mankind?