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.

I said quickly.

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

down. Could she not simply see that

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

he peered down the length of his nose at

a serious matter,” he said.

I didn’t have anything

But in the meantime, the accused should

the sake of the Queen.”

stomach dropped.

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

roughly by

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

Nicholas said. He politely weaved his way through the crowd, approaching me. When he was close enough, he

is a serious matter. Please

him flatly.

apparently not expecting that reaction. Just how

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