Chapter 1:
Noah, Rosie, Megan, Alexi and I walk through the heavily protected city of Adria. I peak over at Rosie occasionally making sure she is not going to run into anything. She has been awfully perky since we dragged her off the steps of the palace. I think she had a minor crush on Prince Thomas but whenever I tried to talk to her about she just skipped away and pretended to ignore me.
“Grace” I hear Rosie’s powerful voice calling from beside me.
I turn to Rosie and say “What do you need Rosie?”
As I move closer to Rosie to her what she has to say something catches the corner of my eye. I refuse to tell anybody about what I saw until I know for a fact that what I saw until I know for a fact that’s what I saw.
I quickly look back at Rosie as she starts to speak but I notice as she starts speaking softly so no one else would her what she had to say:
“Did you see the old prime minister back when we first entered the embassy part of Adria.”
I exchange a look with Rosie and I whisper so I make sure that everyone else especially Alexi doesn’t hear us.
“Yes, I first thought I was just seeing things so I didn’t want to say anything but know that I know that it’s true then...” I hesitate before saying the final words because I know that telling anyone even Alexi considering I didn’t tell them what I knew about the old PM not to mention the fact that Ms.Chancellor shot him. So I decide to say something a little different:
“I thought he was still in a coma; What should we tell the others?” Rosie doesn’t say anything, she just looks ahead. I know notice what Rosie was looking at. The old PM charging toward us like an angry bull. I quickly push Rosie and I toward the nearest wall and out the pathway of the agitated prime minister.
I indicate to Rosie that we should continue in the direction of the other while the old PM is still distracted.
“I think Alexi was taking Noah and Megan to Dominic’s” I say with very little confidence. Rosie nods in agreement. We start walking in the direction in which we were previously headed in. I thought to myself “How did Alexi not notice a crazy old PM about to attack two of his friends. I mean maybe Noah was pointing out one of the craziest new security modules.” Rosie and I continue to walk forward in the direction we thought was the right way. As we were walking through the walkways of the embassy, I realized how different the embassies where since I had left. Everything was almost exactly how Megan described the new protection. It was as if the whole Embassy Row had been rebuilt in the month or so that I have been gone.
“Grace” I hear Rosie say but I realize why she is calling me name. I had been so focused on my surrounding that I hadn’t noticed that we were at Dominic’s. A few miles or so away from the German and the American embassy this little house is the home of the Scarred Man. The man I had thought for three years was the person behind my mother’s death but the monster who committed that crime was me, not Dominic. As I walk in I make the decision to not tell anyone else about the old PM and wait to make sure that he is trying to harm us again.
“Dominic I can only stay for a little bit, I have to go back to the American Embassy and check on my Grandfather and Jamie?” I explain to Dominic and Alexi in case either one of them wanted to walk me back to the Embassy.
“Grace, when you leave can you walk me back to the German Embassy? I don’t like walking through the empty Embassy street’s by myself” I quietly nod to Rosie yes especially since I know why she is not comfortable walking by herself.
