•| SAPPHIRE
It took ten threats, a lot of arguments, and convincing to get Kaiden to allow me to return to my apartment. I couldn’t bear being under the same roof as my aunt’s murderers.
Kaiden had asked me to be patient so that we could find a good time for my revenge, and I knew that being at the palace would make me want to kill Camille and Gavin for the pain they made me go through. So I had to leave.
The minute I stepped into the house, I realized that I should have, in fact, remained at the palace. The silence that greeted me was deafening—it was the kind that pulled someone deep into their depths. It was the kind that came with whispers of the past and memories of the worst kind of pain. It was the kind that left you alone with your thoughts and finished you off from there.
But
