OCTAVIA'S POV Pushing my eyes open, the first thing that settled down to my nerves was my pain, hatred, and then regret that coursed through my veins. I recalled crying all day by Nickolai s' door; he refused to meet with me and turned deaf ears to my pleas and cries. I believed we would be fine. Sort it out by the night, but I was wrong. I had never seen him that pissed or unsettled before so much that it made me feel way worse than I had felt initially. I remember falling asleep by the door, but it was too cold. Eventually I had left for my room hoping he would retire to bed when he was done with his study, but I was wrong; I had made a big mistake by falling asleep. Helen on the other hand wasn't making things quite easy for me wither, she held up a grudge, asking why I

