“Soon?” My heart falls into my stomach.
“Don’t act like you’ll miss me, Princess.” He scoffs.
“Of course I won’t,” I lie. “But I can’t deny that you are the best fighter we have.”
“Say that one more time for me?” he teases.
“Maybe you should get going.” I take a step back, afraid I’m letting myself get too close again.
“And maybe you should be ready for training after breakfast tomorrow.”
“I go to the temple after breakfast.” I cross my arms.
He leans closer to me. “You’re going to go train.”
“I don’t want to.”
“You are. And do you know how I know that you are?”
I put my hands on my hips. “How?”
He pulls me away from the door, then his lips brush against my ear. Chills shiver down my neck, into my arms. “You’ll train with me tomorrow because I know you were lying in the dungeon.”
I swear I can feel the blood drain from my face. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
He straightens, then takes a step away from me. “Training. Tomorrow. Be ready.” He bows. “Princess.” Then he returns to his position against the wall, his gaze piercing right through me as if I don’t exist.
He knows I was lying.
But which lie did he catch?
Twenty-Nine
“It’s raining,”I say as I step into the hallway.
“So?” Brevan asks.
“You want me outside in the mud?” I groan. “Of course you do. You’d love to see me covered in mud again, wouldn’t you?”
“The thought has crossed my mind, but alas, we will be training indoors,” he says. “Let’s go.”
My shoulders slump. The rain was my ticket out of this.
The only thing I can think about as I follow him down the hall is that he knows a secret about me and I’m not sure which one. “Are you ever going to explain what you said to me yesterday?”
“Soon,” he says.
“Do you ever get tired of giving cryptic responses?” I ask.
“Do you ever get tired of asking questions?”
“No.”
“Then you understand,” he says.
I sigh. He’s going to drag this out. At least I know that he won’t turn me over to Caiden. If he was planning to, he’d have done it already.
We’re silent as we continue through the castle, traveling down stairs and through halls until I’m not sure where we are.All I know is that I’m pretty sure we’re not heading in the direction of the dungeons. I could live the rest of my life happily if I never saw that place again.
