Mirabel laid everything out on the table—her entire past.

From the fact that she was a witch, to how the priests arrived in her village, what happened to her mother, and how she ended up being sold into slavery.

She didn’t intend to evoke pity.

Her listener was Karamir, a ruthless slave trader with no heart. Worse than that, he was known as the Slave Reaper. Mirabel was not naive enough to think that playing on his emotions would make things go smoothly.

Children who face harsh realities early in life tend to grow up faster.

That’s why she had …