Sera Escapes

Sera

It’s been hours now since Olivia brought me breakfast. An entire day had passed. I paced beside the windows overlooking the mist-covered garden two stories below me. Night was falling. Stars played peek-a-boo through breaks in the clouds, and I counted a handful of constellations before the cloud cover darkened the sky entirely. Down below, a guard paced back and forth across the patio, his shadow stretching out across the grass in front of him.

I ground my teeth as I picked through what was left of the dinner that had been delivered, and not by Olivia. I hadn’t seen her since this morning, which was odd. The new maid bustled in and out so quickly I didn’t even get a look at her face.

I sucked my lower lip between my teeth and let it go with a pop.

This wouldn’t do. I was trapped up here while someone, possibly my father from the sound of it, was downstairs.

Could he have left already? No, Killian wouldn’t have just let him walk out the door like that. If a deal had been made, I