A few days passed and Soren had regained his strength. While I was pleased with his healing process, more and more. I found I couldn’t be as carefree around him as before.

More and more, I had to remind myself to plaster a smile across my lips.

Things were different now, I felt different.

I felt as if the emotions I was going through were almost robotic, and even though I wanted to believe Soren with all my heart, I just couldn’t.

Ethan lied to me… but so did Soren.

I questioned myself over and over. Had everything up until that point just been part of Soren’s game?

Seraphine stopped...