THE REBELS are here.
The words kept echoing inside my head like they refused to leave my brain alone. It wormed itself inside the cells of my skull, becoming a poison of its own. I wanted to cry alone, holed up in some corner of my room. Trouble just kept on coming and coming, making me overwhelmed with everything.
How did they even manage to get in?
When did they come in?
Why did they decide to come and risk their lives like this?
There were so many questions running through my head, but only some could be muffled, as Kaden pressed his hand on my lips to keep me quiet. Very faintly, I could hear the footsteps running outside the hallways, passing through my locked doors and deeper into the palace. Based on their clearly careless steps around the palace sacred ground, they weren’t fro
