20. Lucky Girl

Elena

"So what do you want me to do?" I asked him.

"Why am I still hearing about you? Don't come back," he whispered. "Go and die, basically," he said.

"Your presence... The mere fact that you are alive is challenging enough. I don't want any challenge, Cassandra doesn't want any challenge, your family doesn't want any challenge right now.

The last thing we want is for the ground we stand on to be shaking. As though the masked King isn't bad enough, we can't afford to add you to the mix."

He hung up after that. Half of what he said made sense to me, but the remaining half didn't. The masked King? What did I have to do with him? And then there was him calling my family. I had no family, so I didn't understand what he meant.

My family, the one I had long since died when I was 15? Then again, I knew nothing of what had happened in Avalia for the last eight years, and I preferred it that way.

I had avoided the news of that city for the last eight years, and I didn't intend to start