“I’m marrying someone else. And our marriage, Katya, will have to be declared null and void,” my husband says coldly, never taking his eyes off the window. A tall, stately white-haired dragon general.
My hands are trembling; a lump rises in my throat. After ten years of living together to hear this… I tended his wounds, waited for him at night, arranged the household. I rode with him to remote garrisons, and for years tried to give him a child. And now…
In my chest it’s as if a red-hot blade is turning. So the rumors were true: they whispered to me about his betrayal, and I didn’t want to believe.
“Between us everything is over,” he turns toward me, burning me with his gaze. “Get ready, Katya. You’re going to the monastery.”
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Five years pass. War with demons is looming. The general is searching for the power hidden in the child I secretly bore for him. And I have to make it happen at any cost that my former husband will never learn the truth.