I wasn’t sure what to make of Elias. Every time I saw him, my emotions were a tangled mess. He had given me protection when I had nowhere else to turn, but I couldn’t forget that he was the enemy—the one who had stolen what was supposed to be mine. Yet, there was something about him. A flicker of something that made my heart beat a little faster when he looked at me. I didn’t want to admit it, but I couldn’t ignore it.
As we stood there in the courtyard, the shadows stretching long as the sun began to set, I crossed my arms, trying to shield myself from the storm of thoughts swirling inside me.
“Are you going to keep standing there?” Elias’s voice broke the silence, smooth and commanding as always. “Or will you come inside? You look like you could use a break.”
I hesitated. I had no ide
