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campus. If we
walked a couple of minutes east, we would end up at Le Mans Hall. I
honestly never thought I would see this place again.
    The new school year must have already
started because chattering girls were everywhere. I gave Taylor a
panicked expression, but he didn’t react. After a few minutes, I
realized he had to be telling the truth. No one noticed us even
when we walked right beside them.
    Taylor was the kind of handsome that
demanded to be admired. From his sensual mouth to his smoldering
honey eyes to his perfectly muscled frame, yet not one person
looked at him…or me for that matter.
    To my surprise, he didn’t take me to Le
Mans Hall. We veered down a side path I was sure I had never taken.
He led me into the trees without saying a word. I glanced sidelong
at him, about ready to scream at him to tell me where we were going
because I did not want to end up in the borderlands at the moment,
when I heard singing. A woman to be precise.
    Her haunting voice propelled me forward
on invisible wings. I found myself listening intently, hoping she
would never stop.
    “ Beautiful, isn’t it? It is
what I miss most about her.”
    We turned a corner, revealing a
clearing up ahead. Sister Mary Margaret, or, as I now thought of
her, Lily, sat on a fallen log. If it weren’t for her silver hair,
I would have mistaken her for a student trying to get some alone
time. She was still very beautiful even though the fire of her hair
had long since died out.
    Taylor pulled me closer to the woman
that I had originally hoped would help me escape the fae, but now I
was almost glad she hadn’t succeeded. My life had become much more
complicated since I was taken to Lombarda, yet richer.
    I loved being in the fae realms.
Despite my initial concerns, I hadn’t met a person other than
Ainessa I felt was truly evil. I didn’t know if even she was all
bad. Don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t stand the woman, but what would
I be doing right now if I were in her place? If my only chance at
happiness meant hurting other people, would I be strong enough to
deny myself?
    “ You are nothing like her,
Rayla,” Taylor commented, pulling my mind back to the task at
hand.
    “ Thanks,” I said, wishing he
would explain why he brought me here.
    He gave me a small smile before his
eyes drifted back to Lily. “I come to see her every
day.”
    I followed him down to the grass,
taking in the deep, earthy scent of the morning. The dew seeped
into my sweats, but I was too focused on other things to care about
it. It would have been impossible for me to look away from Taylor.
In one glimpse, I was witnessing more emotion from him than I
thought he was capable of. He never looked away from Lily. It was
as though he was studying every angle of her face, memorizing her
in vivid detail.
    “ Why?” I asked, my voice
hoarse. Why would he want to torture himself like this?
    He lifted a shoulder lazily. “Not much
time remains. She will be called home soon, and I will be without
her for good.”
    Rustling sounded down the path.
Taylor’s expression shifted from sadness to concern in less than a
heartbeat.
    I watched the path, thinking it was
just a bird or small animal. To my surprise, Adam Wilder from IPS
rounded the corner. His face was flushed as if he had been running,
just like the last time I’d seen him. That was before I knew what
the lords had planned for me, before I knew I would never have a
normal life.
    He heaved a relieved sigh when he saw
Lily. “Sister.” He gave her a brief smile. “I hoped to find you
here.”
    No longer the exuberant girl I had seen
in the borderlands, Sister Mary Margaret stood, facing Adam with a
guarded narrowness to her brown eyes. “What can I do for you, my
dear boy?”
    Pulling a familiar device out of his
pocket, he studied it for a moment then looked at her. “I have new
evidence.”
    Evidence of what? On further inspection
Adam didn’t look so great. He was skinnier and his blue eyes had
become