CHAPTER FIFTEEN
When the guards came to seize her and the others, Olivia didn’t struggle. Her eyes were where they’d been almost since she arrived: on Genevieve. Garet’s presence had stopped her from doing what she needed to do, but now, if they left any gap for her to act…
The thought of what she would do terrified Olivia, because she had never before felt the urge to simply murder someone. She had learned to fight, but her father had told her that she should fight only to protect herself and her subjects. Maybe that was it. Maybe it was the fact that Genevieve threatened all of that and more. She had the potential to ruin things for Olivia, but also to expose everyone to danger. If she would just go away…
“Hands out, I said!” one of the guards demanded, and Olivia realized that he’d b
