“How determined are you to get that book?”
“Very.”
I wasn’t exaggerating. I was already thinking that the first chance I got, I was going to go downstairs and try to take the staircases up to the highest level and see if I could find the king’s chamber.
“Will you let me protect you?” He was almost hesitant in asking. Making my eyes shoot to him.
At first, I wasn’t wholly certain I’d even heard him correctly.
He wants to protect me?
He’s going to go with me? I had never thought I’d be able to persuade him to do that.
My brows shot up. “You’d work with me to do it?”
“No. I don’t think it’s possible. They’d spot me a long way away and know I’m not in the tower where I belong.”
“You’re going to let me go?”
“Let is a strong term for it. I’m simply learning with you that whatever y
