I allowed my eyes to roam around Anoa’s chambers, trying to come up with a possible explanation as to why she wasn’t here. But the more that I tried to come up with something, the more and more disappointed I was becoming. I couldn’t believe that she had done this, that after the night that the two of us had spent together, she had actually gone ahead and abandoned me.
There was a part of me that had even started to suspect that she had left and gone all the way back to Northern Atlantis—it was something that wouldn’t be too much of a surprise, considering her previous track record.
Even as I was having these intrusive thoughts, I told myself that I didn’t need to be so harsh on her. Even though she hadn’t given me much reason to doubt her, I had still done so. It was all the proof tha
