20

I chatted with Amun for a while, but by now I was tired and wanted to go to bed. He understood that and accompanied me to my room.

We walked side by side in silence and once again there was a little chaos of emotions inside me. It was probably a big one.

I tried to concentrate on my surroundings, but my thoughts weren't interested. Amun was next to me and that distracted me. At least I managed to see straight ahead even though his eyes were on me.

Amun broke the silence by asking, "Do you at least like it here? Or do you have a burning desire to run away?"

This morning I would have told him straight to his face that I wanted to leave. Even though that was crazy, the hunters would kill me immediately as soon as they knew whose mate I was. But I should be after it, after all, it would kill him.

Still, the realization about my uncle had changed a lot. Maybe someone else knew about it. Perhaps several people were involved in this plan. It's possible that others wanted to get rid of me in