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Aria's POV.

I sat at my vanity, staring at the engagement ring Kael had slipped onto my finger the night before. The diamond sparkled in the sunlight, catching the light and reflecting it back in tiny bursts, but there was something about it that felt... wrong. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the more I looked at it, the more uneasy I felt.

I turned the ring slowly between my fingers