Chapter 0053

Nicholas

I had no idea why I decided to help Piper. She had betrayed me in the past. By all accounts, I should

have been pleased to see her fail.

Yet, when I stood outside the sitting room and heard Lena suggest the traditional punishment for Piper, I

couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing.

The thought of Piper kneeling out in a storm, soaked, chilled, and miserable sent an unfamiliar tremor of

rage through me.

I didn’t feel strong emotions like that anymore, not since I turned off my heart three years ago. But this

hot anger had been enough to melt through my emotional freeze.

I couldn’t be detached, not with this.

Ambassador Zale had taught the royal family the secret Merfolk greeting only a few hours before. The

timing had been peculiar, almost as if he had expected us to utilize this new knowledge to help the girls

with the challenge, if we so wished.

I hadn’t intended to teach the greeting to anyone. But that had been before the Queen threatened Piper

trivial

had said. Unlikely. She

but never to such an extent that

purposeful, like Piper was being

by being here,

the cruelty made my insides

hoping to earn the favor of our kingdom’s

one of them for not knowing her

in mind, I could almost pretend that I

goodwill with the

knew the truth. I sent Mark to teach Piper the secret greeting

wanted to

dance with Zale while everyone else in the room

to

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out of immediate danger. This left me time to ponder over other concems. Mainly, why didn’t Piper’s maids war her

alone to know, but we had assigned knowledgeable maids to each of the girls precisely to prevent these kinds of

suggest the harsh punishment

but she was

my side with a satisfied look on his face. I nodded

always.

now, how quickly he

looking for someone?”

“Lena,” I said.

a comer of the

sir.”

began walking in that direction. Mark, without needing

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