Chapter 52
I wanted to go to Serenity. I hadn’t had a chance to talk to Apollo alone. I wasn’t even sure if he would be there, but I wanted him to be. Which was a first for me. I didn’t know how to want to be around him. But it didn’t matter. The minute I dressed, when I went out the door I found guards there. Guards that weren’t Everly’s or Apollo’s.
“Where to, Miss?” one of the guards, a man in his forties with grey hair, looked directly at me.
“Who are you?” I asked.
“I’m Jack,” he said, “and this is Owen.” He gestured to another man who had red hair.
“Okay, but what are you doing outside my room?”
“Guarding you, ma’am,” Owen explained, “King Rupert wants to make certain that you are safe, since the kidnapping with the revolutionaries. There’s a chance that they could be co
