Chapter 135
Annalise
The night air was thick with silence, interrupted only by the sound of our quiet, careful footsteps. The kingdom's walls loomed behind us like towering sentinels, keeping the rest of the world at bay. But with Lucien beside me, getting out of them was almost too easy.
No one suspected anything. No alarm had been raised. No torches had been lit in warning.
Lucien made sure of that.
He was fast, calculated, and dangerously good at deception. He knew the guards, knew their schedules, their weaknesses, and their vices. He had navigated the escape with the ease of someone who had done it before.
A part of me wondered just how many times he had done this.
I pulled my cloak tighter around me as we approached the entrance gate. We were just about to slip past when the u
