I barely made it to the edge of the garden before anyone caught me. But suddenly, someone grabbed my hand, it wasn't the guards, it wasn't Renna's lackeys but Ryder himself.
His hand closed around my wrist and I spun around, ready to fight, ready to claw his eyes out if I had to. But the look on his face stopped me cold.
He wasn't angry. He was... afraid.
"Are you insane?" he hissed, pulling me behind a cluster of rose bushes where we couldn't be seen from the house. "Do you have any idea what you just did?"
I yanked my arm free. "I told the truth. Remember that concept?"
"The truth?" His laugh was bitter, desperate. "The truth will get you killed, Sienna. They're already calling for your banishment. Some want worse."
"Then let them…"
"I can't protect you if you keep doing this!" T
