Unexpected Rise of Leonard Storm

Chapter 140

Matida backed away, knowing exactly how many steps it would take to get into the hall, but slammed into a hard, unyielding body just as the door shut behind them. Her hands were shaking so badly she didn’t bother going for her weapons—or Leonard ’s. He’d cut her down the instant Maeve gave the order.

The blood rushed from Matida ’s head. She forced herself to take a breath. And another. Then she said in a too-quiet voice, “Aelin Galathynius is dead.” Just speaking her name aloud—the damned name she had dreaded and hated and tried to forget …

Maeve smiled, revealing sharp little canines. “Let us not bother with lies.”

It wasn’t a lie. That girl, that princess had died in a river a decade ago.

Matida was no more Aelin Galathynius than she was any other person.

The room was too hot—too small, Leonard a brooding force of nature behind her.

She was not to have time to gather herself, to make up excuses and half truths, as she should have been doing these past few days instead of free-fa