Chapter 39

Harper

*'You should go.'* Those three words hit harder than I expected. I froze, my mind already spinning with questions I wanted to ask him—questions about where the King had taken him, what had happened while he was gone—but the words caught in my throat. My chest felt tight, like the air had been squeezed out of it.

Instead of pushing, I just nodded, forcing a small, quiet agreement. “Okay… y