Chapter 45 The Stillness Before The Reckoning

• Samantha's POV
• Royce's message lingered over me like a shadow. Tomorrow will not turn out as you have anticipated. I shall wait. Ever since I first saw those words, they kept coming back to me and caused an unusual mix of anxiety and resolve. He was continually observing, waiting. He seemed to know exactly where we were going, which made me feel like a pawn in his well calibrated game.
• Not this time, though.