After Eliza left the chamber, Ophelia walked to the balcony to look down at the guards and busy servants. From the tower, Ophelia was able to learn when the guards changed their positions, and to her right, she had a tiny glimpse of the training grounds.
Ophelia touched her shoulder. Already, the pain was going away, but it would take longer for the redness to go away.
Ophelia thought of her future with both Dante and Joel.
"They're going to get rid of me the second I am not married to Dante," Ophelia said, since she would no longer be useful to Joel.
In a way, Ophelia needed Hastings. She needed their power to get her brother, and then once the illusion of a truce faded, she would take Theo and leave.
For now, hiding away in a tower wasn't useful to her brother.
It was a mistake. Ophelia had been so focused on Cecilia that she didn't stop to make a plan of how she would get Theo away from her mother and Joel.
