ADRIANNA’S POV

Today was different from the rest of the days I have spent in this castle. Last night, I slept better than I have since I arrived here and woke up with a lightness in my chest, feeling like I could float away and take on the world.

Compared to when I first arrived, afraid I might never fit into this life, I was beginning to settle in just fine. I didn’t know if it was because that so-called Eric’s betrothed, Beatrice, hadn’t come back, or because I hadn’t seen Eric’s brother, Edmund, who had been harassing me and almost killed me for some time now. Whatever it was,...