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 face. “Arguments between candidates are too trivial

the royal family about. These matters can be handled by the palace

punishment could the head of the royal guard

likely to be ejected from the competition without the royal family’s consent. As a

drop me flat before the first elimination. But expulsion wasn’t

ΠΕ

of my freedom of movement through

punishments I could handle. None of them were what made me

that they would

alone kept me silent and

Prince Nicholas would save you again? You should know by now, Piper, that

the same air as

Nicholas chooses whom he can speak to,” I said, daring

would not speak to anyone common

me had been regarding our shared past,

tightened. Her eyebrow twitched, revealing the truth

only talks to you because he is a

a chance in this competition? Someone

about my place here. I knew

the royal family among the

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