Ashley

“Are you trying to get yourself killed?” The voice cut through the silence just as my fingers touched the door handle.I froze and turned around slowly.

My breath hitched, immediately I saw the person standing in front of me., “Etonian?”

For a moment, I couldn’t move. Out of everything I expected to find in this cursed palace, it wasn’t her. What was she doing here, why did she leave the pack?

She stood a few steps away, tall and poised, her dark hair pulled back neatly. The familiar warmth I used to trust in her gaze was gone, replaced with caution and something I didn’t quite recognize.

My chest...