LEAH
I raised my head from the corpse, my heart pounding. Blood pooled on the floor, but my focus, for some reason, shifted, and I stared up at the window. On the eyes staring back at me from the window—the same window the shot had come from.
No time to think. I bolted, slipping into the secret passage and bursting out into the open. The assassin was already running for the back gate. I took off after him, but I knew I wouldn’t catch him in time.
I had to do something, anything at all, to stop humming. I wouldn't reach him on time if I chased after him.
Damien wasn't here to help and neither was Royanna.
What would Royanna do? She would use magic to make it look easy. I had done it earlier, I could do it again if I tried.
With a weird sense of hope, I stretched out my hands, desperat
