LOGINCaspian:One Year LaterThe breeze was warmer today.Softer.Gentler in a way I hadn’t felt in years.More peaceful and more contenting, More calm and even happier.I stood at the edge of the gardens, the same gardens where so much had been taken from us, and so much had been given back, watching Ad
Valerie:The sun was rising over the horizon, golden streaks splitting the sky wide open, like a promise finally fulfilled.I stood at the highest point of the estate grounds, the wind tugging at my hair, the scent of fresh earth and morning dew wrapping around me like a cloak.It was over.Giovanni
“Impressive,” Giovanni called, his voice carrying easily across the clearing. His smile was cold, razor sharp. “I knew there was more to you, Valerie. I knew it from the second I laid eyes on you. I did say that I had more respect to you than I had for others, but it seems to me that I did not expec
Valerie:The boy's cries ripped through me like claws.My heart raced with each passing moment and I did my best not to harm that child. I did my best not to dirty my hands with his blood, to save him out of this, to get him out of this before the man played the game that I was not willing to handle
Caspian:The air was too still.It was the kind of stillness that came after the fight, when the blood had dried and the bodies were cleared, but before the real danger revealed itself.I didn’t like it. Not one damn bit.Because I knew that stillness was one that only told me that more danger was
Valerie:The earth still smelled of blood.I smelled of blood. People's blood the blood of our enemies the people who had dared invade our territory.The ground beneath our feet was turned upside down. We were going to need to fix that later, but I knew that the vines that worked their way from the
Eva:The room was cold.Everyone and everything within this house was cold. It was colder than I would want to admit. It was not what I was used to. I had lived in peace for a while and now for me to be living in such hostility and such fear was not something that I wanted to find myself growing acc
Valerie:Something had changed.The shift within the park was not one that I could just easily miss. It was not one that I could ignore, and I knew that Caspian was doing his best to try and hide it.I could feel it the moment I stepped outside the villa.It wasn't just feeling it, it was the fact t
Valerie:The silence of the infirmary was suffocating.At this point, everything around me felt like I was just going to end up suffocating.Too white. Too clean. Too still.Everyone moved in monotony, everyone moved as if they were busy for a task. And yet the emptiness that I felt was one that I c
A few minutes later, I sat with Adrian at the long dining table in Caspian’s private wing. It felt strange being here again, in this part of the estate—like a ghost brushing against the edge of her former life. But Adrian seemed unfazed. He munched happily on toast while watching the cartoon Caspian







