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 quickly.

past five seconds,

it, doubling down. Could she not simply see that her

keep her eggs on ice and they went bad,”

his arms. Lifting his chin, he peered

is a serious

have anything to

in the meantime, the accused should be placed

for the sake of the

stomach dropped.

Mark had pulled her away. They watched from very far back,

guard grabbed me roughly by the arm.

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paid for their strength. Without

me. When he was close enough, he glared at the guard’s hold on my arm until the guard

matter. Please

at him flatly. “Denied.”

blinked, apparently not expecting that reaction. Just how much

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