Chapter 84

Iris

The palace is sleeping, or at least pretending.

The shadows aren’t acting, and the walls no longer whisper. Lucien isn’t here, and that is giving me time to search. I just have to be careful since nothing here truly rests. Not when this place was created by someone as cunning as Lucien.

Still, I have to try.

I pad over the floor, silent as a breath. The robe he gave me trails along the