EVELYN
Even though every part of me hated the idea of going to see Cole, I followed Flynn down the corridor without complaints. He strode quickly, and I had to lengthen my gait to keep up. The effort brought a sharp pain to my frail ankle, but it wasn’t my place to ask him to slow down or wait for me. Besides, I understood that his speed wasn’t meant to give me a hard time. He was genuinely in a hurry.
He stopped briefly at the first group of guards we encountered and instructed them to secure Anna’s room to ensure no one entered or left. He exchanged a few words with another group stationed at the back door toward the royal garden, telling them to search the palace for any suspicious figures, including tunnels and barely used passages.
I could tell he was not entirely unaffected by t
