It was dark by the time they got off of the train in Domazlice. So far, they hadn’t seen any of Rome’s father’s men again after the incident on the train earlier in the day, but Ella wasn’t about to let her guard down now, even though it seemed very unlikely that they would’ve followed the party here without picking them up at all of the other stops they’d made that day.

“King is here, waiting for us in the parking lot,” Gus said, looking at his phone.

“He answered you, then?” Mary asked, leaning over to look at Gus’s phone as they were walking behind Ella and Rome on...