My arms were stretched out and I was ready to catch her but her features twisted in confusion and it made sense, she had no reason to trust me. To her I was a stranger who somehow stood in her home with a King she thought wanted her mother dead, oblivious to the fact that he was her dad. 

Our eyes locked in a desperate plead and I was waiting- hoping that something would drive her to run to me. Kiera turned her head and her eyes fell when she looked at her mother who reached out a ...