LOGINMy pulse was pounding in my ears. Derek was being held?Likely restrained. This would be my best chance at forcing information out of him myself.“Where is he?” I demanded.“You assume you would be allowed anywhere near him.” King Zavan closed his eyes briefly as if warding off a headache.I hesitat
“I have asked for your help,” I told him, “on the matter of my brother. Only to be harshly refused.”King Zavan’s expression remained unchanged, save for a slight twitch of his brow. Why he would think I would have dropped the subject of my brother so easily, I didn’t care to know.What mattered to
This left the question of who I should report to now.“My lady?”The voice was so soft I nearly did not recognize it. Beta Tyler was stepping forwards me, slow.He had always been polite, but I never knew him to be at all meek. The way he beheld me now was with something like caution, as if I was an
Thoughts tangled in my mind. Most were without conclusion. Others concluded, but with further questions.What would happen to me now? What had happened while I was unconscious? A fall from such a height would have been certain death for anyone else.My powers must have triggered somehow to save me.
I caught myself against a wall, bracing against the dizziness, before forcing myself onward.If I had been put to bed, then I wasn’t slated for execution. Not yet. But how did I get back here? How did I even survive? I remember falling, and then…?The floor shifted sharply, as if the entire castle w
The scent of dahlias hovered in faint notes around me.Mama was humming.Her voice honeyed the quiet midday as I sat in her lap, sulking.She was braiding flowers into my hair, like she always did to cheer me up. The garden was only just starting to wake up after the long winter, so I had plucked wh







