Chapter Sixty Nine

I knew Julia was going to pay me a visit–I had anticipated it. But as the hours passed, I began to hope I had been pardoned. That hope shattered when I awoke from my slumber to find her seated in the chair facing me.

“Empress.” I acknowledged, about to rise to my feet.

“There would be no need for that,” she says.

I looked up to see Trian standing there, his gaze hard.

“I’m so sorry; I disrespected the Empress, but I didn’t mean to.”

“I hear you are tired of learning.”

“I never said that.”

“Are you calling her a liar?”

of course not. It was

had spoken. “When I was little, I had so many questions–why did strange things always happen to me? I asked myself, why me? But as I grew older, I realized that every single ‘strange‘ thing

through the

knows the exact language she uses. I shows me, but the Encounter is only a few months away. You’re learning these languages so you’ll be able to communicate with her when the

joined me on the bed. Her hands trailed down my cheeks and lower to

(

trouble yourself with someone so unremarkable.

her lips. “If I didn’t know better, I would say you

seen a soldier fearless enough

Empress

a lot of time to spend.” She says, rising to her feet, What do you

giving her an intense look, and in that moment, I wished to be in Julia’s position; I wished to have his hungry eyes on me instead,

is not yet over.” She said, “You will have a new guard to watch over you

not to her. I

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