Aurora

“Serena?”

I froze for a few seconds, the shock ran through my spine as I tried to remember any occurrence or encounter that may have provoked her to orchestrate something so cruel as taking me from the palace without my permission of knowledge of Darius.

Yet, no such encounter came to mind. I searched through my thoughts making sure I didn’t skip any moment of meeting and treating her with dismay. I understood she and Darius had a history, but he explained to me that he made it ...