just told me.
Mother.
My mother.
She knew.
She’d known all along what Dorian did to me.
She allowed it to happen.
I wanted to tear out my very heart from my chest, the pain so intense. I wanted to rip off my own skin, for it was tainted,
touched by someone dark and disgusting.
“I’m sorry, your highness. I am so sorry.”
This large, giant of a guard—my friend—hugged me close into his chest. The man I deemed annoying and always wanted to
be away from, was protecting me. He surrounded me in a consuming, comforting hug one would give their child as I sobbed.
“We do not have time for this!” Karim shouted as the sound of a horn echoed in the distance.
Marcus’s arms shot off me as he stood up quickly pulling out his sword. His eyes darted every which way. Karim’s hands
lit up with a red light as his fingertips snapped against the air.
“DID YOU TELL THEM WHERE WE WERE?” Marcus accused Karim.
Grabbing him by the scruff of his shirt and lifting him up off his feet. They had a stand-off for a few seconds before the horn
blew louder. This time closer.
“I did no such thing! I don’t know what that is!”
Marcus dropped Karim to his feet, before lifting me up forcefully by my sleeve and shoved a dagger into my hand. Our eyes
met for a second and I knew what he was trying to say. This was it. I had to fight my way out if I were to get to the castle on
time. They would give me as much time as they could.
I couldn’t break now, I needed to fight.
All that training by Nicholas, Vanessa, and Nora that I was forced to learn, it would be time to put it to use.. If only I could
keep my nerves from destroying me and get myself out of here safely.
Sounds of marching and the beating of drums followed the horn in the short distance within the tree line we’d sheltered
under. There stepping through were a mixture of reds, blacks, and bright golds. A Fae army was marching towards us, one I’d
never seen before.
Holding up my dagger before myself, Karim and Marcus stepped in front of me. The sound of hooves stomping through the
dirt and grass raced towards us as around twenty soldiers on horseback surrounded us within seconds.
Each holding their swords towards us. Their armour was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. It glittered and shined in the
