CHAPTER 21

Ben rubbed the back of his neck as he leaned against the stone fountain in the courtyard and watched the sun go down behind the house across from them. “Oh, fuck! How are you going to do this? She’ll be destroyed.”

He went over every word that Thorin, Haldir and Jasper told him in his mind. He heard them, but he had plans of his own. He couldn’t shake the guilt and regret of what happened to them and, no matter what he had to do, Ben was going to change the course of events...