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Two hundred yards. One fifty.I kept walking.One hundred.The guards noticed me somewhere around fifty yards out. I could tell by the way one of them straightened and said something to the man beside him, both of them squinting in my direction. By the time I reached the edge of the torchlight throw

The guards pulled me up off my knees, and I let them.The room they put me in was on the east side of the palace. A bed, a wash basin, a window with bars over it. The window faced the city rather than the courtyard. The door locked behind them with a final sound.I sat on the edge of the bed and exh

With brisk, long steps that had me nearly jogging to keep up, the guard took me down two corridors and up a half flight of stairs. He knew the patrols well enough to know how to avoid other guards, so we didn’t run into anyone along the way.My mother’s door was the same as I remembered it. He stopp

“I’ve got the exits mapped, the patrol rotations timed,” she said. “But there are over forty wolfless on campus, and if even one of them gets caught while we’re moving—” She stopped. She didn’t finish it, because she didn’t need to. The answer was written clearly enough on that list sitting on the t

“There,” he said. “Now you’re almost ready for our wedding night.”Bianca laughed, a high, delighted sound that bounced off the stone walls.I didn’t say a word. My jaw locked so hard it ached, and my nails bit half-moons into my palms deep enough to leave marks. Soon, I told myself. The second my w