CHAPTER ELEVEN
Sebastian thought he knew all about Ashton, but it wasn’t until he toured it trying to find Sophia that he got a true sense of how large it was. He found himself stalking down every alley on horseback, hunting through every square for some sign of her.
Where would she go after what had happened? After all he’d done to hurt her?
Sebastian’s feelings felt like some tangled sailor’s knot, and it was that knot that kept him walking the city, stopping at every flash of red hair or glimpse of a face that seemed faintly similar.
It was only when he started to hear the rumors about the House of the Unclaimed that Sebastian started to get a sick feeling in his stomach. The orphanage had been burned, everyone within slaughtered. Packs of children were on the streets, running and s
