Chapter 34 The Book

• I stretched to lift it. Careful not to slide it or to unbalance the stool. I was petrified that if it were to clunk or the book drop, he was going to wake. And though I didn’t personally know how awful he was, of all the things Warlord had told me, he’d seemed the most sincere about his worry of what would happen to me if the King caught me.
• Warlord would kill me now if he knew the risk I was taking.
• He’d made me swear to avoid the King and now here I was.