Cedric
They released me just before sunset.
The King had kept his word. The heavy door opened, a guard handed me my phone and the clothes I had arrived in, and just like that I was free. Before I left the palace grounds, I asked the King for one thing only.
“Please don’t tell Gwen yet.”
He studied my face for a long moment, then gave a single nod.
I went straight home.
The entire walk, the King’s confession sat in my chest like a stone. The man who had nearly killed my sister with his car, who had erased every trace of what he had done, had knelt on a dungeon floor and cried in front of me. The same man who had just given me his blessing to love his daughter. I didn’t know how to hold both truths at the same time.
When I opened the door to the apartment, Nora was on the couch. The s
