Chapter 0602

Nicholas, meanwhile, looked down and to the side. He wouldn't meet my gaze even as I walked nearer to him.

"Nick?" I prompted, fear weighing heavy on my heart.

*Unfortunately, that isn't all of the bad news I have to share," he said.

I braced myself. "What else?"

*Joyce has somehow escaped."

I gasped, shocked. How could that be? The youngest prince had been given the nicest prison cell I had ever seen in my life, but it was still a prison cell, buried deep under the palace grounds. This place is crawling with guards. How in the world would he escape?

And why would he want to? Veronica had been working with him, helping him understand the depths of his brainwashing. Had he reversed to his previous thinking in Veronica's absence?

Oh, God. Veronica was going to be devastated. She'd been working so hard with him. She saw part of herself in him, and sought to save them both. She would undoubtedly see this as her own failing.

the norm

in my stomach. I

Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done similar when he'd rescued Jane from her fall

want with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't

to my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal

that. Were the underground planning on hurting Nicholas and

war with the Bear People to do

arms around myself. "The war makes everything

next instant, taking away some of the worry with it. "Don't worry about

"But the Bear People...?"

Even if she

believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone

many things to worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to help Nicholas. I wouldn't shrink

was a lot to think over, to consider, and to plan

hard to turn public opinion on me. I could be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and then I wouldn't be

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