Chapter 28 - Adrian was already gone.

With that thought in mind, Liz let her eyes drop closed, hoping she’d have a dream just as lovely. Especially, if she could awaken to winning Adrian’s heart and trust back in reality.

She was in a mansion, an enormous one different from Adrian’s – like a castle.

It took her a moment to register that she was indeed in a castle.

She didn’t know whose castle or where it was, or even if she belonged there. She only knew she felt trapped, suffocated.

Pacing back and forth in a small room, she measured passing time by the tap of her feet against the stone floor and the matching beats of her heart. She soon realized her room was in a tall tower, because she could look out the window and see the forest far down below.

And beyond it was a cliff and that rocky mountain over which she sometimes liked to fly.

Fly? She couldn’t fly. What a silly thought that was! Everybody has always, one way or another, wished that they could fly but then, would be told they couldn’t fly.

But somebody had on