•Astrid’s POV*
Telling max, I will kill my mother felt good after what happened and broke my heart. My mother and best friend were trying to kill me and turning everyone against me. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Max has his chin resting on my head and is snoring. I snuggle into Max’s chest and try to fall asleep. Still, I can I have too much running through my head, so I think about all the times my mother looked down on me and spoke to me like I was nobody all the times my mother hit me and refused to spend time with me unless it was a royal engagement I had to attend I should have seen it I should have seen how my mother treated me as a sign and left sooner and when Cassandra was at the castle I should have seen that Cassandra looked like my mother and how my mother trea
