ANYA'S POV"Okay," Abel agreed. I looked at him in shock. Okay? Just like that? Does he trust me that much? I have used this explanation before, and I thought that he would at least be suspicious and ask me some more questions, but he just said okay and left it at that.I suddenly realised that I couldn't read Abel's expression. I could not tell if he believed me or if there was something that he was hiding from me. "We are here," he announced. I looked at him. "we are where?" I asked him. "The place I wanted to show you," Abel said as he flashed me a smile. My heart must have skipped more than a beat when he flashed me that smile. I had been so focused on trying to map out the places he was showing me in my head that I did not notice that he had a particular destination in his head. I looked outside the car. My mouth fell open when I saw where we were. It was stunning...I had no words to describe it. Beautiful and colourful petals were falling, which made it even more beauti

ANYA'S POV"Why? We are having so much fun! Anya won't be able to come out like this once her training starts! Why do we have to go back?" He asked. Abel looked over at me. "Andrei has asked us to come back," Abel said solemnly. "Why does he want us to come back? Did something happen?" Kern asked. Abel shrugged. "I don't know. But he sounded really serious on the phone. I guess we will just have to go back and see what happens," Abel said to us.....We arrived back at the palace thirty minutes later. We immediately made it over to the meeting room because that was where Andrei told us to meet him. Immediately we got there, we saw Andrei and Ariana there. Ariana was breeding, and I immediately knew that something was going to happen. "She is here! Let's check her room immediately! I am sure that she's the one who took it!" Ariana said. I looked at her in surprise. "What are you talking about?" I asked her. "You know what I am talking about! How dare you pretend?! Since you d

ANYA'S POV"So let me ask you again, did you see her acting suspiciously? How did that bracelet get in her room?" Andrei asked the maid. Ariana darted her eyes around. I could see that she was starting to get uncomfortable. "What are you trying to do, Andrei?! Don't you believe me?! You already saw this in her room and are still trying to make excuses for her! Don't you believe that she can do anything wrong at all?!" Ariana yelled. "We are just trying to get to the bottom of this since Anya wasn't even here all day. Since this was found in her room, we must find out how it got there. If someone is trying to frame her on purpose, they will get what's coming for them!" Abel said. "I don't know what you are talking about! She did steal from me! I don't care if she's a guest or not! I know that she's trying to steal from me! Why haven't you talked about the punishment she will get now that it's been found in her room?" Ariana asked. No one was paying attention to her at this point.

ABEL’S POVI woke up the next day feeling extremely horrible about myself. I did not mean to upset her last night or make her feel that Ariana could get away with whatever she did to her. Sometimes I really wanted to tell her about Ariana’s father so she could understand why we had to tolerate her even though we could not stand her. But I knew that Andrei wouldn’t want me to tell her, so I held myself back and kept whatever I wanted to tell her to myself. I hated that she had gone to bed angry with me. I hoped that she would be in a better state of mind to talk to me. Anyone would be mad after the person who framed them got away with it. Even though the maid was punished, she wasn’t the mastermind, so it did not matter.……Thirty minutes later, I sat at the dining table, having breakfast with Andrei. Andrei did not raise his head to look at me once, but I could tell he was watching me.I finally could not stand it anymore. I slammed my fork on the table and looked him in the eye

ANYA'S POVI walked down the forest path as slowly as I could. I had been running for a few hours now, and I was tired. I knew that I had to convey my strength if I wanted to get out of this place alive.I looked down at the men's clothes that I was wearing. I hadn't planned to disguise my identity before I left, but as I made my way out of the Palace, I thought that it would be best to disguise myself so that I wouldn't be caught. I had taken a pair of male clothes that I found outside someone's house. It would help me cover up my identity.I thought about Abel. I had thought about him a lot since I left the Palace. I almost wanted to go back to the palace because of how much I was missing him, but I knew that I couldn't do something like that. I would only be getting myself in trouble if I did that. I won't ever be getting a chance to leave. I will just give up on Abel. He and I were never meant to be in the first place. I will just bury whatever feelings I have for him. I felt