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He sighed and looked away When he returned his gaze to her face, there was only sy in his cool blue eyes “The injuries fro the transplants one by one The doctors don’t expect him to recover”

It took all the strength she had not to give in to the shock and slide down the wall into a pool of goop at the news She was h to scream at him for days, but he was her father Even now, even after everything, she loved him

“How ive him?”

“A matter of months” He reached for her, but she brushed off his touch

Understanding jolted her, connecting all of the events of the past week “That’s why you caer finally spouting through her frozen core “Not because of some outside threat, but because you needed a head of state to overthrow that farce of a government and my father couldn’t do it”

“The Fjende is out there,” Do for you” He slaainst the bookshelf door “They did find you”

“Why should I believe you?”

“Because you know I’ the truth”

The laugh that spilled out of her was anything but joyful “Just like I knew my father was dead? Just like I kneas alone in the world? Just like I knew that so for me when my plane landed in America after the coup?”

“It’s not like that” He blanched and looked deflated and so unlike the ultra-confident man he’d always been “Not between us”

“Funny, that’s what I thought, too” She took a step back and brought her hand to the hidden door, ready to swing it shut “Turns out I rong”

“Where are you going?”

He probably thought she was running away, planning to start all over again with a new naain, but she wasn’t going to

“To pack” Her voice sounded so much steadier than she felt “Unlike some people, I keep my word I said I’d return to Elskov and knock the Fjende and their puppet off the throne, and I will”

“We need to bring you up to speed on the details of ill happen at the Kronig”