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

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

Could she not simply see that her eggs

eggs on ice and they went

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

a

have anything to do with –”

“We will investigate. But in the meantime, the accused should be

for the sake of the

dropped.

her away. They watched from very far back, near the edge of the gardens. Hopefully,

me roughly by

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

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

dipping his head. “This is a serious matter.

stared at him

that reaction. Just how much free reign did this

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