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I went over to where she and Hattie were chatting and gave her a big hug. “I love you, Mother. Sorry I can’t walk back with you. We have to go now.”
“Don’t worry about it.” She hugged me back. “Goodbye dear. Stay safe.”
Knowing what I had just figured out made me as far opposite of safe as was possible, I gave her another hug, making her get that worried look that only mothers could.
“Take care, Hattie,” I smiled.
Back inside the building, Prince Krewan was nowhere to be found and I almost took a deep breath. But that was when I noticed the carriage sitting out front of the orphanage. But it wasn’t a supply one. It was one like I had ridden to the castle in that first night.
I slowed down, not wanting to get into that carriage, knowing it was sure to deliver me to my death. I wasso, sodead.
“Come on,” Owen urged gently.
I looked at him, sure that the terror I was feeling was visible in my eyes.
“Trust me,” he added as he gestured with his head. “Let’s go.”
As he opened the door to the carriage, I confirmed my suspicion that Owen and I were not alone.
I sat across from Prince Krewan, Owen sliding in next to me.
The door shut and clicked, the carriage jerking forward as the horses started our journey.
Prince Krewan turned his attention to Owen, his jaw clenched, his magic slithering along his veins.“What the hell did you just do?”
CHAPTER29
“What should have been done weeks ago,” Owen said unbothered by the prince’s obvious anger.
Prince Krewan cocked his head. “You want to explain stuff to her, fine, but you should’ve left the orphanage out of it, you ass.”
Owen’s skin now glowed with his green magic. “I am sick and tired of the two of you doing this to her. You were both excited enough to bring her into things when you thought she was a disloyal.”
“But she isn’t,” Prince Krewan snapped.
“Yes, she is!” Owen fired back. “She just doesn’t know it. Everything she does, down to never calling any of youmy graceormy princeis defiance to that throne. She’s one of us. She just doesn’t know there’s a group of us that feel similarly.”
I kept quiet because, well, I was a dead woman first of all, and secondly, this conversation was more information than Keir had ever given me. And Owen had a point. While all the other women always usedmyin front of their titles, I never had.
Prince Krewan rolled his eyes. “Fine. So tell her there is a rebellion then. Tell her she’s not alone so she’s better equipped to survive my father. But leave the orphanage out of it.”
“Too late,” Owen stated. “They wanted to go there. She and her mother go there frequently. It could’ve happened at any point. I’m surprised it hasn’t already.”
Prince Krewan squinted. “You knew I was there today though. Youknew, and you allowed them to walk right into it.”
Owen groaned to the ceiling. “Enough, Krew. Enough. You might be okay with her making you the enemy, but I’m not. She saw what happened to Laurent. And she deserves to know the truth.”
Prince Krewan’s eyes finally moved from being narrowed in on Owen to me. “The truth is that I killed him.” For the first time, some of his magic seemed to calm.
Owen looked at me, moving to face me as he did. “Laurent was a disloyal. Part of this underground group of us that have been trying to take down the king for years.”
Prince Krewan sighed.
Owen ignored him. “The king had found out he was a disloyal and was going to torture him in front of his most loyal that night as a reminder of what he is capable of.”
I wasn’t sure I should speak at all. “So why not let him go then?”
Owen looked to Prince Krewan, who said nothing. Just glared.
