10 Gwin searched the entire castle, from the dungeons to the Weapons Room, to the training fields, to the stables. She couldn't find Lance. She'd never sought him out purposefully, but still, she'd always managed to bump into him. The two had been like magnets the entire time they’d been in each other’s lives. She would always look up and see him not too far. The few times in her life that she had been in danger, he'd stepped in front of her. Now, when she ached to be in his arms, he was nowhere to be found. She knew he hadn’t gone shopping with Morgan and Arthur. Mainly because she knew Arthur was preoccupied—dragging his fiancée bodily on the errand. But also because she’d texted Morgan who had already left and said Lance wasn’t with them. He wasn’t out with Tristan and Percy. Gwin h

