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.

In the past five seconds, she had taken that

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

they went bad,”

he peered down the length of his

poisoning is a serious matter,” he said.

Linda. I didn’t have anything to do with

in the meantime, the accused should be placed

the sake of the

stomach dropped. “What?”

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

guard grabbed me roughly by the arm.

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

crowd, approaching me. When he was close enough, he glared at the guard’s

head. “This is a serious matter. Please allow me permission to handle it

at him

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

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