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 my previous guards. And

by Nicholas, then I had little reason

fond of Elva. I believed him when he said he would

was all I could

one knee

to you, Elva. But I can vow to you that it will never happen

on, you have my

didn’t reply, just looked

wavered. “If you are ever scared, and your mom or Prince Nicholas aren’t around,

me, okay? Do

my nod, she gave him her attention again.

smile restored. He rose to his feet. “Are you both headed down

cort your

sick,

a lot since the day before, she still seemed

guards, Mark included.

outfits were lost on her. She saw them all

pushed her

in time, she would come to trust them

were loudly chatting

before I had gone out there. The Queen, it seemed,

of her punishing in

Elva’s endangerment made it onto television, thank goodness.

catch it, did not mean the other girls had not

– who wasn’t Lilliana, much to her

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