Chapter 5
WE WALKED, SIDE BY side, and everything felt so right. Despite the danger I was in, the risks he was taking, I was happy.
I allowed myself a brief moment to relish the feeling. I pretended that he wasn’t the head of the Council’s guard and I wasn’t the bastard child of the High Warlock.
I pretended he wasn’t supposed to turn me over to a dangerous Council and I wasn’t on the run for my life. Could we be together in any other world? Could we make whatever was between us work?
But not now. Not when all this danger and uncertainty surrounded us.
I opened my eyes. Two people strolled toward us, through the trees, and I recognized both of them. Abigail, her diminutive frame a striking contrast to Horlow, who walked beside her.
“Looks like they found us first,” I murmured, more t
