#Chapter 77: The New Reality

Sienna’s POV I didn’t know how to feel, what to do, or where to go. After the King told me the truth, that Asher was Alaric, I couldn’t see straight. I’d run out of there so fast, because despite Asher having told me not to believe what the King said, I knew I’d just been told the truth that had been kept from me for so long. It’s because it made sense. All the mysterious outings, the elite people he knew, his connection to the Elder’s. How had I not seen it until now? Who else had been lying to me? Lucius had to be — he and Asher were so close, there was no way he hadn’t known the truth. Did Mia know, too? Had she been laughing hysterically behind my back at my naîvety? Had all of them? I didn’t know who to trust anymore, and I knew I was going to shelter within myself, taking everything into my own hands. It hurt more than I could ever explain to be left out of something like that, when Asher had seemed so close to me. Am I not