Chapter 77 The Promise

• Fiona
• Nina dropped me off outside the palace gates. I felt lighter in my step after spending time with my best friend and my grandfather. I hadn’t been seeing enough of my loved ones. Time with them had sanded the edges off the pain I had been letting tear me up inside for days.
• Alexander wasn’t in our room when I got in, but I saw the door to his office was ajar and a light was on inside. My shoulders relaxed. I’d been tense, bracing myself to find him waiting for me expectantly.