Epilogue
Maiya stared into the face of Rapunzel where her portrait hung in the great entranceway of La Dame’s mountain palace. The depth of sadness in the woman’s eyes, matched her own.
Dracon was not her home.
She didn’t remember her time there as a child and as she wandered the streets of stone, she couldn’t help feeling out of place.
She’d betrayed the one person she’d ever truly loved. A woman who was meant to be queen of Bela. A queen she could have followed with her whole heart.
Glancing to the side, she caught her father talking to one of the guards. They’d been called from their cold, ugly one-room home to attend La Dame. A chill swept through her but it didn’t dim the fire of regret.
Maiya had never known her mother. She never imagined she’d been born of someone so close
