CHAPTER 91
CLARA’S POV
“They are fighting,” Nico said, he didn’t look scared, unlike Ruby and I. His eyes were calm, but they were restless and curious, darting around, especially towards the balcony which I had forbidden him from, “I saw Dominic, mom. Do you think he’s going to be alright? He looked at me, mom. Did you see?”
I nodded silently. I had tried to get his mind off it, but nothing I engaged him in worked. I wanted to head down to Dominic’s study room, probably to get a book to read to him, but how could I even do that when the shouts and chants of the soldiers downstairs was like a harsh, cracking radio in our ears? And Ruby refused the instant I proposed the idea to her.
“Go down there? No, Clara!” she’d whispered fiercely, “Dominic told me strictly not to step out of this
