Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Eric POV:

This was a joke. It had to be.

The same way Wendy’s party had been a joke. The same way I had told Laila everything would be fine.

That was all this was-some elaborate, well-deserved punishment. A lie designed to scare me into understanding what I’d almost thrown away. Any minute now, someone would set it straight.

I kept telling myself that while I fought against the warriors holding me, right up until they knocked me out.

When I came to, the orders were already in place: I was not permitted to approach the royal castle.