Tessa’s POV:
All my life I’ve lived by someone else’s rule, been someone else’s prisoner, and lived a life I didn’t choose. Not anymore.
Today I chose to have a choice, and in doing so, I chose me.
I waited for a little while to ensure everyone must have gathered at the garden. But, secretly, to gather strength for the unknown path that lay before me.
If my plan works and I manage to escape the mansion, I’m not sure what will happen next. I had no idea where I was; I mean, I was literally. I had no idea how to go home or what even awaited me outside the mansion’s gate. The only definite knowledge I had was that Lucian’s mansion was on a mountaintop.
“How far can home possibly be? It’s not like we aren’t still in California, after all.” I tried to convince myself.
Slowly, I walked
