Autumn's POV

When I was carried out of the meeting place, Ava was following behind, and I haven't seen her until now, so I think she should have fallen into the bog as well. The bog gradually drowned me, my heart was crushed and I couldn't breathe, I opened my mouth to breathe and tried to keep still and slow down the sinking.

I could hear their conversation clearly, the Queen's past flashed before my eyes like fragments, pieced together in bits and pieces, and I saw all of her past.

Her fluttering at seeing Gabriel for the first time, her joy at learning she was his MATE, the hard...