Chapter 347: Terribly Uneconomic

Amalia It was real—that was all she seemed to tell herself over and over again. It was like Talia had said. There was always a chance, so long as you were open to it. The conversation with Talia replayed in her mind. “I was rejected, Talia had said. And he invited another. But worse was that I was pregnant. Pregnancy and rejection didn’t exactly go hand in hand, and so she found herself in a very strange place, with a strange man in strange clothes. It took a while, but I eventually reconciled the fact that I was his, but he was her second chance. It wasn’t far-fetched, just rare, but it happened. And you had to believe it, too. Do you?” Talia had blinked at her, the vivid green of her eyes twinkling with obvious knowledge and handling about that fact. She couldn’t help but feel scared—scared out of her mind, in fact. The aftermath of the ambush was eerily quiet, with only the faint sounds of their enemies groaning in the distance. Avario paced near the treeline, his arms crossed as h