[Calm down, Holly.]
How the hell could I calm down?!
Evander was behind me as well as Alec. I didn’t care if Alec went with us. All I knew was that my whole body was trembling with both fear and trepidation for my father’s life.
The guard led us straight to the bedroom of the Alpha King. I’ve never been into this part of the Snakewood Palace and that’s how I realized how sad it was that I wanted to get away from this place so badly to be with my husband that I hadn't even considered how my father would feel about it.
Tears rolled down my face as the sentinels guarding my dad’s room opened the heavy wooden door decorated with gilded linings and exquisite carvings—the map of his realm.