CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
Sophia stood at the doors to the royal palace and remembered the first time she’d come there. She’d been so worried that her disguise might not work, that people would find her out, that she would be sent back to the House of the Unclaimed or worse. Now the doors hung in splintered ruins and, in spite of the battle it had taken to get this far, Sophia had only one concern:
Sebastian.
“We have to find him, Sienne,” she said, as she made her way up the steps that led inside. The forest cat stalked along beside her, looking around in every corner as if searching for potential threats.
“You shouldn’t go into the palace yet,” Jan insisted, running up. “We still have pockets of resistance. Let us make sure that everything is safe.”
Sophia shook her head. “There’s no time
