Chapter 35

CHAPTER 35

RAINA’S POV

I knew just where to wait for King Declan.

He had hinted at the fact that he was the only one that ever stepped into this ramshackle shelter.

I knew I was taking a risk by invading his privacy, but I needed him to explain to me what was going on. I wanted to hear everything from his mouth and not Alice’s.

Something in me told me that Alice wasn’t lying and had only spoken the truth. I could never forget the way the edges of her eyes twisted mockingly when she stared at me while talking. Alice had pulled me to a dark corner of the hallway, away from the hall where the feast was going on.

“Why do we have to be so far away from everyone else?” I had queried, she was the last person I trusted in dark and tight spaces.

A light from the hall had reflected on a glass vase and lit ……