CHAPTER SIXTY ONE

and I looked back towards where she was. She had just sat there, lost in herself and in her thoughts. Feeling guilty and ashamed. I wish I could walk to her and hold her, tell her everything was going to be okay, because it was going to be.

I stood up from where I had sat and walked towards the house, this was where commander Jonathan met me for the first time. He would be coming out any minute now. To pretend that this was his first time seeing me.

I walked into the house, the house I had been avoiding since morning. I walked right through the door and looked around. It was beautiful and huge outside, then absolutely breathtaking inside. It was really pretty.

It was completely empty and silent, as if there was no one around. But I had seen them, King Jade and his son, they had both come in here, so where were they?

There was a huge spiral staircase going up, so slowly made my way up and into the first floor of the house. There was a corridor with beautiful chandeliers adorned all the