LIORA'S POV
The Emporer and Heather, Heather and Emporer. . . together? Just the way it was prophesied to be.
How could I have been so stupid? Did I really believe someone like him could ever want someone like me?
I have escaped straight into the palace gardens under the cover of night, desperate to hide where no one can see the broken, shattered pieces of me. The moon hangs high, but its pale light does nothing to soothe the ache twisting in my chest.
I let myself fall to the dump ground of the garden, and tears continue to sting my eyes. I let them flow. I wish I can stop time so I won't have to live on the face this reality.
The reality that I am now officially mateless and will soon be homeless as well. And there isn't a single person or place I know that I can run to.
I curl up
