Chapter 0056

“Marry him, then.” She nodded, like it was decided. Like it was somehow that easy.

I hated disappointing her. I wished I could let her believe what she wanted.

“I’m sorry, Elva. But Prince Nicholas and I won’t ever be a couple. No matter what.”

She looked up at me with large, vulnerable eyes. “Not ever?”

I shook my head.

“But why?”

Because I broke his heart? Because he thought I had betrayed him? Because he’d returned the gift I’d

made him? Because he was a prince, and I was just a wolf–less waitress?

There were so many reasons. All of which felt like too much information for my small daughter.

“We’re just not meant to be,” I said.

Elva had a grasp of fairy tales and happily ever after. Even if she couldn’t understand everything, she

might be able to handle this much.

She must have, because her questions stopped. But then she started to cry.

“But I like him, Mommy,” she said, wiping at her eyes. “If you married him, then he would be my Dad.”

I hated more than anything to disappoint her, but what could I do? I couldn’t lie to her about this, not to

then have to reveal the truth like it was all some cruel joke.

I’d had

Everyone knew I’d be the

leave. From

In that case, we wouldn’t even

like our future held any

even as a

I said, and pulled Elva

arms around my neck and cried

back to soothe her.

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had ended and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I

thought the maids would have left us for the night, but

for me to finish

within it, I motioned the maid closer to the

I said: “I don’t need anything more

I hadn’t forgotten the apparent betrayal of my maids, who surely knew bout the Queen’s rules for glove–length and had not

wrong

at

the gloves I made for you. I don’t

traveled fast in the servants‘ corridors. It

“I don’t know why the other maid

“I

think so,”

“No”

the other maid had purposefully meant to sabotage me.

to go home. Why make things even

be listening at the door.

shiver ran

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had ended and Elva fell asleep in my arms, I carried her

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