DANE'S POV

That jerk! It turns out that his plan had been set from the very start.

He'd always talked about wanting Astrid back, and his secret meetings with me—none of it was real. His true intention was to kill me from the beginning. He was just like Camilla, who was so desperate to have Astrid's life that she was willing to kill to get it.

Now, here was Halfdan, who had been secretly plotting to kill me and take my place.

"When you're gone," Halfdan sneered, "Astrid will have no choice but to come back to me. She won't have any other options. We will get married, and everything...