By Order of the Crown

(Neva’s POV)

I sat on the edge of my bed, staring at nothing.

My fingers kept twisting the same piece of thread from my duvet until it nearly snapped. Kaelen's words haunted me, he wouldn't even let me finish the rejection. Why would he not let me go? And now... now I was stuck in a storm of emotions, trying to count all the ways I could force him to reject me instead.

A soft knock came at the d