I kept myself busy because every moment alone gave my thoughts too much room to wander.
Draven noticed.
Of course he noticed.
The first night, he apparently waited for me to return to our shared chambers, because Gideon later mentioned that the king had remained awake long after midnight.
The second night, he asked Lyra whether I had said anything.
By the third night, he had stopped pretending that my absence didn't bother him.
I heard the rumors, although nobody dared say them directly to me.
Draven wasn't sleeping. Draven wasn't eating properly and Draven kept asking where I was.
During a military meeting, Darius noticed his king staring toward the doors whenever someone entered and Gideon later told Magnus that Draven had asked three different guards whether they had seen me.
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