Chapter 143

**Silas's POV**

I felt it the moment the crown cracked.

A sharp pain in my chest. Like someone drove a knife between my ribs and twisted. And twisted. And twisted.

She was remembering.

My beautiful, broken queen was remembering *him*.

*Ronan,* her voice whispered in my head. Not speaking to me. Never to me. Always his name on her lips. Even when she slept. Even when she thought I couldn't hear.

The throne room doors showed me everything ...