Draven’s POV About fifteen minutes ago, I’d called the palace kitchen and asked for dinner to be sent upstairs. Elena hadn’t looked up once. We’d returned from Gregory’s nearly two hours ago. Since then, she’d claimed the desk beside the window, surrounded herself with ancient journals, and disappeared into them as though the rest of the world no longer existed. The oldest journal remained tucked safely beneath the others, exactly where she’d placed it after we’d arrived. Instead, she’d started with the volume Gregory had identified as documenting the Ancient Royal Fae. It lay open before her now, surrounded by several loose sheets of parchment she’d borrowed from my desk. Every so often, she’d scribble a note before flipping another page. She wasn’t reading casually. She was searching for answers. I leaned against the doorway connecting our sitting room to the bedroom, watching her in silence. She’d tucked one leg beneath herself in the chair, completely oblivious to everything
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