LEANDER’S POV I stepped out of the bathroom, adjusting the towel around my waist. As I dried off, my head felt like it was spinning. Tonight had been a lot. The shadows, the secrets, the truth that hit me like a punch to the chest. They were simply too much to deal with. Royal blood. Really? And the woman I’d once known as Elder Agatha was actually Athena. And she was supposedly family. And all this time, dark forces had been after me for things I didn’t even know. It was like my whole life had been a lie, and now the pieces were finally falling into place, but painfully so. I pulled on my shirt and pants slowly, my thoughts racing the whole time. How could a life I’d thought was just unlucky turn out to be anything but ordinary? How could everything I’d thought were just random coinc

