LARA’S POV
My aim for coming here in the royal library is simple, to know more about the alchemy apparently Vain has in his blood. Nothing else, nothing more. But it would seem like I, along with Yael, do not have a choice to be involved in a secret that we should not know. It was too late to move back to where we were, we were already hiding. Speaking of, Yael pulled me closer to him, more out of sight than moving far away from him.
“We should have just left.” I whispered in the quietest way I can manage. “This is going to get us in trouble.”
“Do you think I wanted this?” He whispered back.
None of us attempted to speak again when we heard the footsteps closer to us. It was already a give away that someone was here because we simply left everything on the table. Hiding still has its
