95 Talking

Al's arms tightened around me as he continued to digest everything I had said. After a while he spoke up again a bit hesitantly.

"I see why you don't want to leave the palace for a while. We'll be more careful until everything is said and done. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise. But Katie…why did you feel so strongly about following the story before? And what changed your mind?"

I had wondered that many times. Bending over backwards to make the author's original intentions come to pass had been exhausting. Maybe it was to have a sense of normalcy, honoring a story from my world.

For some reason back then I had a horrible feeling that something bad would happen if I didn't keep the story the same. Plus I felt guilty about stealing Marcy's man. The last of my inhibitions on the matter went out the window when I realized she had been using him the entire time in the novel.