Not everyone chose the hard road. Sometimes, they just don't see two roads.
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"The one in the maximum penitentiary. Joaquin Imperial escaped."
Aries's face turned blank at the knight's report. She knew Joaquin was imprisoned, but she never asked where or what they had been doing to him. No one cared. Joaquin was simply a part of her past, a small indicator of what she had become.
But the thought of Joaquin walking on this world freely and knowing his vengeful heart, marching to vengeance, only meant more problems.
Aries slowly moved her shaking eyes back to Maximus. The latter was smiling, amused by whatever was happening outside this banquet hall.
"Abel," she called under her breath, her lips quivering as her neck turned taut. "My brother…"
