The guards grabbed me by the arms and yanked me to my feet. Once I was standing, they continued to

grip, as if I might try to run away.

I’m not surprised,” Lena said, turning up her nose at me. “It was only a matter of time before this one

started some trouble.”

I struggled to maintain my calm. “She wished harm onto my daughter.”

Kirsten rolled her eyes. “Please. No one believes that. I am of the highest breeding. My word carries so

much more weight than yours, or that of your spawn.”

“But-

off

“Save your excuses for the head of the royal guard.” Lena cut me off. “He’ll be the one deciding a

punishment that will fit this show of disrespect.”

The head of the royal guard? Not the King or Queen or the princes?

have seen the confusion on my

royal family about. These matters can

my stomach. What punishment could the head of the

competition without the royal family’s consent. As a

good to drop me flat before the

ΠΕ

smaller, windowless room. Or take away some of my freedom of movement through

None of them

was that they

me silent and complacent, as Kirsten laughed

you again? You should know

the same air as

he can speak to,”

speak to anyone common was

our shared past, not because

eyebrow twitched, revealing

is a good person and he feels

a chance in this competition?

had no misconceptions about my place here. I knew I was

of the royal family among the common

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