Evelyn
I confided in Emma after Alexander left to investigate the guards who were killed. It’s too dangerous with the rebel werewolves targeting me to use Alexander’s absence to escape, so I was stuck sitting in his room, worrying for his safety.
Emma assured me he would be okay, but I could tell she was hiding her own worry. “Why did he send guards to retrieve the witch of the north?” she asked.
I wondered the same thing.
When I didn’t have the answer for her, she tried to distract me with training and music, but my heart was only half in anything we did, the other half waiting for signs from surrounding guards that the king had returned. I ended up showering and crawling in our bed, hoping to fall asleep, to fall unconscious until his return.
Emma wakes me up to let me know he’s
