Exiled with a Bump, Back with a Crown

Nerina crouched behind a shelf in Evander’s underground chamber, her fingers trembling around a sonogram report—three heartbeats, three unborn children. She had hoped the truth would melt the ice in her husband’s eyes. That he might finally see her as more than a pawn in his ruthless game.

But what she saw instead shattered her.

Evander was selling Titanis technology—her father’s secret weapons—to foreign hands. And worse, he spoke of her as if she were a tool. A means to an end. A golden key to unlock power... then discard.

Just like he discarded her father.