Verity's pov

Slowly, the chamber faded away.

The murmurs, Cassian, Caleb, all of it. They turned to the shadows that had haunted me for years. Shadows that I had tried to ignore for so long but now they were closer than ever.

I suddenly wished I had never step foot in this castle, maybe then HE would have never been able to find me again.

I hated when my mind dragged me back there. Back into the stinking, rotting belly of the darklands.

I was still dumb back then. Not being able to ...