Reborn to Ruin Them All
"You're supposed to be dead." Wren Voss smiled. "I was. Eight times, actually." Three years before the betrayal that killed her, she opened her eyes in a body that hadn't yet been....
"You're supposed to be dead." Wren Voss smiled. "I was. Eight times, actually." Three years before the betrayal that killed her, she opened her eyes in a body that hadn't yet been broken, pregnant, powerless, surrounded by people who would one day watch her die and call it justice. "Wren." Adrian reached for her hand like he always did. Like he hadn't murdered her yet. "You've been strange since the fever broke." "Have I?" "You look at me like you already know how this ends." "I do." She let him keep her hand. For now. "That's the difference between us, Adrian. You're improvising. I've already lived this chapter." Her family wanted the empire. The Circle wanted the child growing inside her. And somewhere beneath both of those hungers sat the truth no one had said aloud yet — that Wren wasn't just back. She was becoming something. "You're not the girl we buried," her grandmother said, watching her too closely across the war table. "No," Wren agreed. "She's still in the ground. I made sure of that myself." This time, she wouldn't beg to be believed. She wouldn't wait to be saved. Every house that sold her out, every friend who looked away, every lie whispered behind closed doors, she remembered all of it, and she was done forgiving in advance. "What are you planning?" Evelyn asked her, voice low, careful, the voice of someone who already suspected the answer. Wren didn't blink. "I'm going to ruin every single one of them. And I'm going to enjoy it." The problem was the child inside her remembered too. And what it remembered might be worse than anything Wren had planned.
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