29Treyan stood silently, staring at the very book that had come to destroy his life.
It had been three months since Alex's return, but still nothing changed.
Of course, he tried calling on her, when he was able to—his time at the palace was limited due to his constant visits towards the tree line, but still he tried. However, each time the guards outside of her chamber doors—his own guards—denied him entry. Alex refused to see him, and he hadn't talked to her since the night she awoke and subsequently walked away from him. She rarely left her quarters, he noted on the rare occasions he was within the palace, and when she did leave them it was never alone. She was constantly surrounded by her guards, or the Councillor, and on the off chance their paths did cross, whether in the hallways o
