But then, I see her face. That radiant joy, the pure happiness glowing in her eyes like sunlight breaking through clouds. She’s carrying on a new life. She deserves this moment of perfect, untainted bliss.
I can’t ruin it. Not with my paranoia. Not when I might have imagined it. Not when telling her would mean guards flooding the gardens and Kael locking her away in fear.
She deserves better than that.
“Nothing.” I force a smile, pushing off the wall even though my hands are shaking. “Just got dizzy for a second. I’m fine.”
Her brow furrows worriedly, but before she can press me, I take her hand and pull her forward. “Come on. Kael’s waiting.”
We’re off again, but my eyes keep darting to windows, to shadowed corners, to doorways and alcoves—anywhere Zane might appear. Anywhere he migh
