Ariana's POV
They found me in one of the smaller antechambers off the main hall, exactly where I had known they would.
I had asked an attendant to get them there rather than wait for them to navigate the crowd searching for me, and when the door opened and Leah stepped through with Ethan close behind her, I felt my carefully held composure waver for the first time since my father spoke my name in front of the entire realm.
Leah stopped a few steps inside the door, her eyes moving over me slowly, taking in the royal silver, the moonlight hair, all of it. Ethan hovered just behind her, his expression harder to read than I had ever seen.
"Hi," I said quietly, because I did not know what else to offer at first.
"Hi," Leah repeated, her voice flat in a way that told me exactly how much eff
