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.

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

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

eggs on ice and they went bad,” I said. “That’s all that

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

a serious

that to Linda. I didn’t have anything to

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

sake of the Queen.”

dropped.

They watched from very far back, near

roughly by

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I struggled, but they were trained soldiers, paid for their strength. Without my wolf, I was an absolute

Nicholas said. He politely weaved his way through the crowd, approaching me. When he was close enough, he glared at the guard’s hold on my arm until the guard released

Joseph said, dipping his head. “This is a serious matter. Please allow me permission to handle it as I

him flatly.

how

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