Abriel “Macey has the right to know the truth if we want her to trust us fully,” I tell my brothers once we are outside the hospital. The words have been eating away at me for days. Every lie, every half-truth, every question we pretend not to hear. “At some point she is going to stop asking politely and start demanding answers. When that happens, I honestly cannot blame her,” I tell them. We wouldn’t want her walking in on us and misunderstanding our intentions. “We should wait until she gets discharged and take her to the palace. That is the only place where she will be safe, and if we tell her the truth and she decides to run away at least we will be able to keep track of her,” Ur says and he makes sense. “We would also assign her to the leader of the guards, Linda, whom we tru

