Shattering the Charade

MAEVIA

For a brief moment after my words settled in the air, Vanya Fane looked completely frozen.

"I am already living inside Grimwood Keep again."

The statement had landed harder than I expected.

Vanya recovered quickly, but the flash of panic in her eyes was impossible to miss. She had clearly spent weeks planning her return to Torin's side without realizing that I had already been brought back