Aurora's POV
I go back to my room and stand under the shower until the water runs cold, letting it wash the last three days of river mud down the drain along with everything Damien said in that office.
"You didn't just survive it. You ran half of it."
I slip into my soft Mickey Pajamas (Matching outfits with Noah) and go out to the terrace with a cup of tea I don't really want, and I sit there turning his words over the way I turned the divorce papers over that last night at Redmoon, methodically, looking for the seam where I could pull them apart and prove him wrong. I don't find one. The tea goes cold in my hands, and I'm still sitting there, staring at nothing, when Nova finds me.
"The alliance spring gathering," she says, dropping into the chair across from me without waiting for a
