*Gemma*

I hadn’t had the mindset to consider what was next for either Raisa or myself. All we had been focused on was escaping Connor and not whatever was beyond that. I didn’t know about her, but I did not excel at planning ahead in anything I did, and now I realized the hard way that would be my downfall.

As I lay in bed, all I could come up with were two options: leave or stay. Leave to get on a boat and a train back to Lyrehaven and somehow get a ...