It felt like waking up from a painfully long dream. But I hadn't been dreaming, it was reality through and through. I almost got killed by a monster because of my carelessness.
I stirred, rising with a groan. When I opened my eyes, I saw Lira staring at me with a flat look on her face.
"How was your beauty sleep, Your Highness?" she asked sarcastically.
"You know that was far from a beauty sleep, Lira." I shot her an equally impassive expression. "But thanks for asking anyway."
I leaned my back on the headboard, discovering that we weren't in the townhouse I rented for us months ago. We were supposed to live there in hiding from my parents, in a small city on the corners of Orion. Obviously, this place was not it. And I couldn't have slept for that many days for the whole duration of the travel, so there was that.
