Elena POV

It had ended up taking more than thirty minutes before the guards managed to clear a path for us to the palace gates.

As soon as we got in, Draven left to go to a meeting and I ended up with too much energy and nothing to do.

“Told you we wouldn’t get caught,” I said to Nellie as the both of us sneaked into the hospital ward, “you worry too much.”

Nellie let out a bitter smile, pointing to the guard trailing behind us from a distance, “we would have definitely gotten ...