The feeling in my stomach didn't go away the closer we got to the castle. It actually got worse. I was scared that everything was going to go wrong and the vampires or the witches or something was going to go wrong.

I knew what my biggest fear was, but I kept pushing that to the back of my mind and telling myself that we were going to get Ryker out alive. This was the longest I had ever been without him, and I tried to focus on what it would feel like to actually wrap my arms around ...