Sabotage? The girls around us burst into loud chatter.

“Could it be possible? How would she do it?”

“Anything’s possible. She could have done it.”

“Someone get the guards! If it’s true, that’s an attempt on the Queen’s life!”

At the sound of that accusation, the guards closed in around my table. One of them scurried off, only to return quickly with Joseph himself in tow.

“This is getting out of hand,” I said. “Linda, tell them this wasn’t sabotage.

“Why would I?” Linda said. “How else would my appetizer make the Queen sick? You didn’t…. poison it,

did you, Piper?”

At the mention of poison, the crowd gasped.

“What? No!” I held my hands up, but the guards had taken renewed interest in me.

“What’s this about poison?” Joseph said, bullying his way to my side.

said

Queen!” Linda said, pointing. In the past five seconds, she had taken

not simply see that her eggs had spoiled?

didn’t keep her eggs on ice and they went bad,” I said. “That’s all that

Lifting his chin, he peered down the length of his nose at

of poisoning is a serious

I didn’t have

me. “We will investigate. But in the meantime,

for the sake

stomach dropped. “What?”

crowd. Fortunately Mark had pulled her away. They watched from very far back, near the edge of the gardens. Hopefully, she was too

grabbed me roughly by the arm.

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trained soldiers, paid for their strength.

way through the crowd, approaching me. When he was close enough, he glared at the guard’s hold on my

said, dipping his head. “This is a serious matter.

him

not expecting that reaction. Just how much free reign did this Captain of

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