RUBY POV As soon as those gates broke down, I felt a sudden relief rush through my body. Cole, Graham and I started running towards our soldiers but we were cut off by the evil Queen's soldiers. She could obviously hear something going on inside the castle because she then started screaming for eve
"I wonder if Taylor knows that." Aria says. "I'm sure she'll figure it out. This is Taylor that we're talking about." Edward says. "She needs to get her powers back first." Wyatt says. "What do you mean?" I was very concerned. How could she not have her powers? "Matthew strips everyone of their
TAYLOR POV When I was taken back to the cell that night Jackson ran straight up and hugged me. I could feel the relief flooding off of him when he saw that I wasn't any more hurt than I had been this morning. I know that he had been talking to the other house slaves and they would have told him if
There were no other couples amongst the slaves. Most of them barely looked like friends. Even though they were all going through this together, they didn't seem to even talk to each other. Jackson and I were definitely the closest among the slaves, and I think that's what caused them to stare at us
I knew that I was playing a dangerous game. Any of these slaves could go to the King if they were truly scared. But I needed to do something. And I was sure that some of these slaves still had some fight left in them. We just needed to find the right ones. And we needed to give them something to fig
I took the trays down to the cell and I pulled in a stool that was just outside that room so that I could stand on it. It was the stool that the night guard would sit on while he was on duty to make sure that we didn't try to break out. And I balanced the trays on two beams that were close together
As I was sitting there staring at this haggard old man who was dirty and starving and looked like he had been worked to the bone for the last 20 years, I couldn't imagine how he used to be the King. "What the hell?" I was shocked. "I know. I wasn't expecting to find him alive either. But he's bee
I knew that it really hurt Jackson having to do that to Jeremiah, but I told him to. It was my responsibility. If he didn't do something drastic like that to prove himself to Lilith, then she wouldn't have made him her second in command. And it wasn't for nothing. We did learn things about Lilith's