Chapter130: Going Home

*Isla* I think I know what I need to do. It won’t be easy. He won’t let me go, but I need to. I need to leave the castle. Everything that Trinity has said solidifies in my mind that Maddox is not considering my needs one bit, and the fact that I am carrying his child doesn’t even seem to mean anything to him. “I think… I need to go,” I say to Trinity and Ben as we are still sitting in the garden. “Oh, all right,” Trinity says. “To your room?” I stand, my legs still slightly wobbly from everything that has been going on. Ben reaches out to steady me, but I recover before I can fall over or even need to grab him. “No, actually,” I tell her. “I mean, I think I need to go home. Back to my pack. Away from Maddox. And… all of this.” Trinity stands, too. “Isla, I don’t recommend that,” she says, and her voice is still low but stern. “I think that Maddox is going to end up getting himself into a lot of trouble with the other packs if he doesn’t go through with this, but he’s clever enough to f