Emily's POV

We had twenty more percent of the distance to cover, it wasn't gonna take any longer, we would be arriving and people didn't need to see Douglas with this face. I spared a few seconds and tried cleaning it again.

Then my phone rang, disrupting the map screen. It was gonna come back. I brought my face closer, it was Elene.

Are they there?

This I asked myself, out of my imagination, then I tapped on the answer. "Hi Emily," she called in her lovely voice. "The king is here with soldiers numbering up to what I guess fifty, they are threatening to pull the trigger at me,...