Chapter 7: The Past

~ Kaelen ~

"I admit. My guard, Dorothy, and I were planning my escape," Kaelen confessed softly, the words finally tumbling out of her trembling lips. Her chest heaved heavily under the suffocating weight of her own darkest secrets. She sat rigidly in the chair, feeling entirely exposed beneath Soren’s highly attentive, piercing blue gaze. "Dorothy had carefully arranged absolutely everything. Bu