Seraphina believes Damian saved her and gave her a loving marriage. She later discovers that his attachment is directed toward her aunt Isabella and that even the rescue was staged. Further neglect during pregnancy leads her to obtain an annulment, end the pregnancy and leave a relationship shaped by substitution and control.
Ethan uses forgotten rituals to help Sabrina win a governorship. Her new alliance with Andrew brings humiliation, the arrest of Ethan’s parents and their subsequent deaths. Dismissed from both marriage and office, he turns the loyalty that once supported her toward a response to what they have taken.
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