My Lover Became My Executioner

Rowan loved my Imperial Brother.

But the year he fell from grace, I forced him to become my kept man, humiliating him beyond measure.

Years later, he raised an army and marched against the crown.

The day his cavalry thundered through the Royal City, my father, the Emperor, groveled and offered my Imperial Sister to him.

Yet, Declan simply smiled, his gaze shifting to me.

"What, is Rowan too afraid to face me?"

Everyone said the first thing Declan would do after seizing power was to offer a thousand pieces of gold for my head.

But he didn't know.

I was already dead.

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