All Chapters of Surrogate for the Alpha Prince in a Coma: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

The royal escort drove me back to Shadow Creek on a gray morning. Two guards sat in the front of the black car, and neither spoke. I wore my palace tunic with the sleeves rolled, my mother's locket flat against my collarbone, and a kitchen knife strapped to my calf beneath the trouser leg.I'd taken

The training grounds smelled like sweat and trampled grass and iron. I stood at the edge of the field in the fitted black pants and sleeveless top they'd issued me, my hair braided tight, my boots laced to the ankle. The lash wounds on my back pulled when I rolled my shoulders, but the pain had shru