Chapter 8 The King's Apology

|| Lilac's POV || The drive home was a blur of streetlights and racing thoughts. My knuckles ached from how tightly I'd been gripping the steering wheel, the leather creaking under my desperate hold. The damage was done. Kael's public meltdown, the wolfsbane scandal, the press swarming like vultures— it was all out there now, immortalized in headlines and gossip columns.