Chapter 0062

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The next morning. when I woke up, I headed straight for the window to look at the sky. Fortunately, there

was no cloud in sight. Today, it seemed, I would escape my punishment.

One of these days, however, my luck would run out and I would be forced to kneel in the storm and hope

my body was strong enough to take it.

Elva and I dressed for the day, and hand in hand, we exited our room to head down to breakfast. Just

outside of the room, we were greeted by Mark.

“Piper, Elva.” He turned toward the two guards standing behind him. “From now on, these two will be

personally assigned to you.”

Their uniforms were more or less similar to other guards I’d seen, except these ones had green trim

around their cuffs.

“They are a part of Prince Nicholas’s personal guard,” Mark explained. “You will also find that others on

this floor have been replaced, though these two will be outside your door at all times if you need them.”

me soft nods. They seemed nice enough, much nicer than

vetted by Nicholas, then I had little reason to

past, Nicholas seemed fond of Elva. I

was all I

dropped to one knee to talk

you, Elva. But I can vow to

now on, you

didn’t reply, just looked at him

“If you are ever scared, and your

me, okay? Do

up at me. At my nod, she gave him her

his feet. “Are you

cort your

be sick,

down a lot since the day before, she still seemed nervous,

guards, Mark included.

subtler differences in their outfits were lost on her. She

pushed her out of a

in time, she would come to trust them again. At

were loudly chatting about the previous

had been banned from the gardens before I had gone out there.

of

Elva’s endangerment made it onto television,

the cameras didn’t catch it, did not mean

who wasn’t Lilliana, much to her obvious irritation was

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