The Mermaid's Heart Scale, A Goddess Awakes

Five hundred years into my marriage with Garrett, the Dragon Prince, he tore out my heart scale.

He needed it as an ingredient to cure Chloe, his reincarnated soulmate and the supposed ancient True Goddess.

Looking at my battered, dying body, he ordered me to guard the alchemy furnace―a place we merfolk feared above all else.

"Chloe's divine pill is still on the fire. Watch the flames closely. With the Rainbow Cloak I gave you, you will be fine."

He did not know that a merperson dies without