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?

confusion on my face. “Arguments between candidates are

royal family about. These matters can be handled by

forming in my stomach. What punishment could the head of the royal

to be ejected from the competition

good to drop me flat before the first elimination. But expulsion wasn’t all they

ΠΕ

take away some of my freedom of movement through the

None of them

was that they would take away Elva’s

and complacent,

you hoping Prince Nicholas would save you again?

breathe the same air as

speak to,” I said, daring a

anyone common was a slight he

our shared past, not

revealing the truth

Nicholas only talks to you because he is a good

chance in this competition? Someone like

I knew I was allowed to stay simply

of the royal family among the

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