Chapter 14

The day that we were to fly to England finally arrived. I didn’t say goodbye to the other children or the people in the adoption center. Instead, I bid goodbye to my homeland. I’d be back, I swore after kissing the ground. Wait for your queen. I clutched the bookmark in my hand and let it calm me as the plane took off, taking me away from the country.
It was the bookmark that held a flower that Talia gave me before. I found it on the coat I was wearing when I escaped from the burning...