Chapter Seventeen
Brianne
Brianne paced her room, glancing once again at her locked door. What was she going to do? How had her family expected her to be able to find anything out? If she left the fortress she risked never being able to return. And every time she searched the fortress Talon seemed to be there, stopping her from finding anything important. He had an uncanny ability of turning up each time she found something that might be worth checking out.
A loud rap on her door brought her pacing to a halt. Her stomach flipped and her heart leapt. She’d been thinking all night about how to play out this scene and she still wasn’t certain what to do. Now there was no more time for thinking. Hesitant steps brought her across the room and her hand hovered over the lock.
Another knock, t
