Unspoken Comfort

(Neva’s POV)

I couldn’t stop the sobs, my tears soaking into the pillow.

Everything was too much… Thalia was still angry with me, the maids had laughed while Sloane insulted my children and me... and I'd done nothing. I couldn’t. Not after all the chaos I’d caused on my very first night in the palace.

Another sob slipped out before I could swallow it back.

I curled into myself on the bed when the