Chapter 77.

Kiera, the name didn't seem familiar, I hadn't heard it before but Zade seemed awfully sure that Darian would know it. He left after the very brief visit and now I just sat on the edge of the bed with my feet firmly on the floor in case I needed to spring up as fast as possible. I waited for him to return. I waited for so long that my mind started spinning around the possibility of him not returning at all. It wasn't like him to forgo the hunt of an enemy which Zade clearly was now so why would he come back without having found him? It’s a dangerous thing to be caught up in your thoughts because you don't hear the sounds around you as well as you should. I missed the footsteps outside the door but I caught the doors slamming open and violently hitting the walls. He had to have broken them, there wasn't a chance that they were attached to their hinges after that sound. The small table with the vase that welcomed you into the room was thrown across the floor from behind the wall and the