ELORA’S POV. (Back in Fendlyn). I see him smiling at me as I approached. My heart swells with pride at the thought of what is about to happen. I am going to marry the king of all people. The King everyone adores. And then I am going to be Queen. I can’t help but keep waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me all of this is a dream. My life in that lonely cave, my life after escaping my step mother. Maybe I’d just wake up and find that I never left, I never died and no one took over my body. And that I never found someone who looks at me like the King currently does. I didn’t have to be inside his heart to know what that look in his eyes translates to. Love, Adoration. But then it was all gone in a minute. The moment I was actually close enough to touch him. Everything changed

