Returned

Rosalind's POV

When I woke up much later, Killian was gone. I wasn't surprised. He no doubt wanted to put some distance between us after the surprising intimacy of our time together.

That was just, it suited me just fine that I didn't have him in my room, so no one would know when I snuck out for certain clandestine operations.

I knew that after the so-called attacks, I should have been laid off from going back but I found myself getting more angry the more I thought about it. How dare they do that to me?

How dare they make me trust them and then betray me so thoroughly like this?

I had to go back. I had to at least attempt to have a civilized conversation with them to understand where this was coming from.

I snuck back out and River was there just in time, his face more unbearable than usual but I couldn't tell at him there was where all the guards could come back on duty at any time and reported me for consorting with the enemy so I kept my mouth shut as River reached out to me