Estella’s POV
Fury burned through my veins like wildfire.
The guard’s words echoed in my head on repeat until I could barely hear anything else. Especially you? The nerve of that man! If Darius thought a few wards and terrified guards could stop me, he didn’t know me at all. Bella growled in agreement.
I muttered the invisibility spell Professor Incera had taught me, bending the light to hide myself from sight, then layered it with Dane’s—no, Darius’s—own lesson on masking my aura. Once both were in place, I walked right past the guards.
The palace was eerily quiet, its hallways filled with the kind of stillness that comes before disaster. I reached the corridor leading to Darius’s chambers in no time, noting the guards stationed outside. They didn’t see me, so I stepped toward the do
