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

In the past five seconds, she

latched onto it, doubling down. Could she not simply see that her eggs had spoiled?

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

chin, he peered down the length of his nose at me.

is a serious

didn’t have

investigate. But in the meantime, the accused should

the sake of the Queen.”

stomach dropped. “What?”

looked around, searching for Elva in the crowd. Fortunately Mark had pulled her away. They watched from very far back, near the edge of the gardens. Hopefully, she was too far away to

guard grabbed me roughly by the arm.

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their strength. Without my wolf, I

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

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

at him

Just how much free reign did

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