Her Journey Beyond the Script novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Locked Wing
"I'm going in alone," said Aveline.
Torin stood at the iron doors of the locked wing with the captain and forty men behind him.
He had gone grey around the mouth.
"She has the boy."
"That's why."
"She has a knife in her sleeve and nothing left to lose."
"Then you'll wait out here, where you can't make it worse." She laid a hand flat on his chest. "You said I'd decide."
He looked at her for a long second.
"Five minutes," he said. "Then I break the door."
"Ten."
"Seven."
"Done."
The captain opened the doors, and she walked through into the dim, perfumed hall of the Queen's wing.
They shut behind her.
The Queen's morning room was at the end of a long, silent corridor.
Aveline found her there, sitting very straight on the rose-colored sofa.
She had taken off her mourning veil.
Her silver-blonde hair was perfectly smooth.
On the table in front of her stood a white teapot and two cups.
The little prince sat on a footstool by her feet, in his black suit, with his knees together.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Her Journey Beyond the Script are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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