Watch Your Back

***Hazel***

“What are you doing here?”

My chest rose and fell erratically as the words left my mouth, lungs still burning from the run—from the rose garden, through the halls, past the staring servants and the guards who hadn’t even tried to stop me. My pulse throbbed in my ears, drowning out everything except the sight before me.

Corbin, standing beside Victor’s bed like he actually belonged ther