Chapter 101
The next day, Arden was getting ready for morning roll call when a sudden knock echoed through her room. She paused, glancing from the door to her clock. Seeing that she wasn't late, she looked back at the door and waited. Sure enough, the knocking came again.
"Who is it?" Arden called out.
"It's Thorne. You up?"
Arden furrowed her brows and walked over to open the door, giving him a questioning look that silently asked why he was at her room so early in the morning.
“Why the f*ck were you in my room last night?” Thorne asked, his tone hard and dripping with hostility.
“I was escorting the investigator to your quarters, per the King’s explicit instructions,” Arden flatly answered. She didn't have the patience for Thorne’s hostility, least of all first thing in the morning
