219 The Deadline is Tonight

~ I cannot leave without your forgiveness, ~ the Shade said simply.

'...!' of all the things she expected to listen to, Alexa didn't think that was Gisela's request. And only gradually did the understanding of what the White Queen had done to her make sense in her mind.

Perhaps her mother had not died as a result of childbirth. Alexa had no way of knowing. Perhaps she would have been sacrificed if the spell that linked her to a boy elsewhere had not inspired her father to hide her identity.

At the age of four, the period when Alexa awakened for her powers and saw a Shade for the first time, she would have been thrown into the fire. But while surviving was a blessing, she shouldn't have been alive... if it weren't for Alexander's life. But all magic has an end, and they were coming to an end. Both must die to keep the promise in return for Klaus' heart.

'You … went too far, Gisela.'