FINNIAN

I kicked the chamber doors open so hard the sound echoed down the hallway. She jerked back, her eyes wide as a startled deer.

For a second, I saw the fear flash through her face, then she straightened her spine as if nothing had happened, as if she was telling herself that, " I didn’t come here because of her.

“P-Prince…” she whispered, but the cold thud of my footsteps swallowed her words.

The chamber looked exactly how Eve had described. Two bags sit by the bed, packed ...