Once Upon a Broken Heart

The door leads to what looks like a library. Jacks sags on to a sofa, and Evangeline takes a sheet of the Daily Rumor he’d been clutching. It says that Marisol and Tiberius are to be wed the next morning and that they fell in love at first sight. Evangeline can’t help but think Marisol used a love potion on the prince and fears “that wasn’t the only thing her stepsister had done” (346). She tries to wake Jacks, but he’s sleeping too deeply. She feels his heart beating and pulls away before she can think too much about what it means.

Evangeline searches the bookshelves for a love spell antidote, figuring if Tiberius is under a spell, curing him would prove Marisol bewitched him. She finds a bundle of flavored water on a desk and drinks two labeled “curious” and “luck.” She reaches for a third but gets distracted by a letter beside the bottles. It’s one she wrote to Jacks a week ago, which means this library belongs to him.

Evangeline searches Jacks’s desk and bookshelves, finding nothing of interest until she comes across several volumes of “The Ballad of the Archer and the Fox,” a story famous for its ending being obscured by the North’s magic.