Draven,
I didn’t know how long I had been sleeping. The thick haze of exhaustion clung to me, and for a moment, I couldn’t remember when I’d fallen asleep last night. I had ordered my people to stop sharing any information, my mind frantic with the sudden weight of the situation.
I had no idea who in my circle was truly loyal, and for all I knew, my father’s shadow still loomed in the distance. But that was all I could do. Until I returned to Paris and faced my grandfather, there was nothing else I could manage.
The pressure in my head grew heavier by the second. In my sleep, the echo of Diana’s voice reverberated in my mind. The question she had asked me over and over: Why did you leave me?
Her words twisted inside me, a constant ache. She was innocent. I had abandoned her without
