Chapter 129 ~ NYSSA I regretted my choice to send Rowan away the minute the door slammed shut behind him. I longed to call out to him, the words on the tip of my tongue, but the sentence would not form. Instead, I watched him disappear, the guilt and loneliness

Chapter 128 ~ ROWAN I stilled, my hands wrapping tighter around her. It was the most vulnerable I’d ever heard her. “I won’t, I promise,” I whispered to her. I walked over to the bed, lowering myself onto the warm mattress. She nestled closer to me, her head resting in

Chapter 127 ~ ROWAN Nyssa’s silence was unsettling. On the outside she looked well enough, she smiled when she ought to, spoke as she always did, but the light of those emotions did not reach her eyes. Her movements were mechanic, as if she were a puppet whose strings were

Chapter 126 ~ NYSSA Rowan sat in the back seat with me, both of us covered in blood from the same person. It was a sight to behold and as I glanced at myself in the mirror, I could not help but cringe. I looked an utter mess. The car

Chapter 125 ~ NYSSA My mind was a jumbled mess. The guards led me towards a car and I sat in the backseat, hands folded neatly in my lap as they paced at the side of the car. I was grateful that they didn’t sit in with me. I wasn’t

Chapter 124 ~ ROWAN I held her close, ignoring the blood that clung to her and the slight crazed look in her eyes. A part of me did not want to believe it, that she was here, in my arms. We had only just arrived. The border was easy to

Chapter 123 ~ NYSSA I stumbled back, staring in shock at what I had done, at the blood coating my fingers, my clothes, my arms. Henry was unrecognizable. Blood pooled over his body and the floor beneath us, his face was covered in cuts, his eye was cut, as was

Chapter 122 ~ NYSSA I could not sleep. Every time I closed my eyes I felt his hands on me, I heard the sounds he made. I lay in the bed, my eyes fixed on the ceiling above. The only thing that gave me any sense of reprieve was imagining

Chapter 121 ~ ARIA I paced the palace hallways, waiting for Rowan to return from… whatever it is that he was doing to that man. Nerves ran through my body, making my fingertips tingle and my heart race in my chest as the seconds ticked by. Rowan was playing a

Chapter 120 ~ NYSSA Kissing Henry was every shade of wrong. His lips were soft and familiar, but unlike the warm feeling it used to bring, it now made goosebumps crawl over my skin and bile threaten to come up my throat. I knew I fucked up by asking to