Chapter 50

Jace's POV

I was at the door of the palace, taking a deep breath of anxiety. I was swallowing lumps in my throat and trying hard to calm myself down as my brain went wild with different thoughts about what could be the problem.

The way everyone in and outside the royal packhouse was staring at me while I was heading here was something to be worried about. The environment was so tense and odd. No giggling and cheerful discussion by the maids or girards on duty.

"What really happened again?" I asked myself, as I kept gathering courage to enter the palace.

"It can't be that they are saying the truth. It is all a trap and if there is anyone to fall into it, that person will surely be Jace!" I slightly heard Sophia's voice. She must have screamed so hard that it enabled me to hear her voice from outside.

"What are you standing there doing, traitor?" I heard one of the guards huffing at me, and that made me look up to see their familiar faces. These men had been like buddies to me. The o