~Alora~

I lifted my head from my slumped position on the unyielding, as I heard footsteps. The footsteps were different than those of those booted guards—light, even, with an air of control that churned my stomach with fear.

When the woman appeared before my cell door, my breath caught in my throat. It was her—the strawberry-blonde woman from the council meeting, the one Rose had introduced as standing in my place. Hazel Crown, the woman who was going to replace me as Lucian's ...