Once Upon a Broken Heart

As a statue, Evangeline can still think. She remains steadfast in the belief that she did the right thing and that someone will save her. She wonders briefly if that savior will be Jacks but knows it won’t because “he was the one people needed saving from” (32).

Chapter 5 is one sentence which states that Evangeline suddenly “felt something that was not heartbreak or regret” (33).

Six weeks after being turned to stone, Evangeline can feel herself again. She returns to life in one of the palace’s laboratories where another of the Fates explains Jacks ran into trouble and fled the city. The Fate warns her to resist the pull toward Jacks if she wants to be happy because “Jacks will only lead to your destruction” (38).

In the great room, a crowd of people waits to welcome Evangeline back to life and celebrate her sacrifice. Luc isn’t there, which hurts Evangeline, but her stepmother and Marisol both look happy to see her. A reporter from a local gossip sheet called the Whisper Gazette interviews Evangeline and updates her on events of the last weeks. Right after she turned to stone, the Fates escaped a deck of cards where they’d been imprisoned and tried to take over the empire.