Mia
I thought for sure it was going to hit me.
My body had already tensed, my breath caught in my throat, waiting for the impact. Everything in me had already braced for pain, for the sharp force of it, for the moment everything would go wrong.
But it never came.
Instead, the Second Prince stepped in front of me.
The arrow struck him.
My eyes widened instantly. “What…?”
I froze for a second, completely bewildered, my mind refusing to process what I was seeing. The attacker had already moved, already disappeared into the forest without a trace, leaving only silence behind like nothing had happened at all.
Why would he…?
The thought didn’t even finish properly in my head before I snapped out of it and rushed toward him.
“Why did you do that?” I asked quickly, my voice sharper than
