Chapter 52

**Evangeline's POV**

My tiny apartment felt like a prison cell. The walls pressed in on me from all sides, making it hard to breathe. I'd been pacing the same three steps back and forth for hours, my bare feet wearing a path in the old carpet.

The council meeting felt like it happened years ago instead of just this morning. Everything had changed so fast. One moment I thought I was going to be expelled, thrown out with nothing. The next, Ronan was standing up for ...