Jayden’s POV

This party was the last place I expected to be, but I didn’t have a choice.

My mother had stripped that ability away when she forced me to decide and for some stupid reason, I picked Liandren.

Now I had poison running through my veins, and the only one who could help was my mother.

I sold the last shred of my will in exchange for a lady who would abandon me the moment she learned the truth—that I hadn’t been sincere from the beginning of our friendship.

Yet seeing the way ...