Chapter 37

HAZEL

I couldn’t tell you how long I walked the halls before Elise found me. It was embarrassing enough that I couldn’t find my way back to my room but when she told me that I was in the wrong wing of the palace I just gave up.

She guided me back through the twists and turns of the halls and the stairs, it was like a jigsaw puzzle and I had no clue how I would get out of here.

One of these days I needed to sit down and map everything out. I knew that down the right corridor and past two hallways, down two flights of stairs and past three colorless doors was the door that led out of the palace—the one that Gabe used to get me out.

I hated to admit it but that was everything I knew and that was a piece of information that I’d keep safely tucked away until I needed it.

“Has he told you anything about tonight’s ball?” Elise asked while she dried my hair. I told her that it wasn’t necessary, that I could fix it myself but she insisted, stating that it’d been