She Chose to Stay

Talia POV

Gideon led me through the palace. A route I didn't know. Through the back gardens. The side passage. Out through a door I'd never used.

Into the courtyard.

I stopped.

The whole courtyard.

Flowers everywhere. White and pale yellow and the deep blue ones I'd seen growing wild in Ashcreek my whole childhood. Someone had known. Someone had asked or remembered or found out what flowers meant