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.”

enough, much nicer than my

then I had little reason

Nicholas seemed fond of Elva. I believed him when

that was all I could

dropped to one knee

that happened to you, Elva. But I can vow to

on, you have

looked at him with

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

me, okay? Do you know

at me. At my nod, she gave him

right,” he said, smile restored. He rose to his feet. “Are you both

cort your

be sick,

since the day before, she still

guards, Mark included.

her. She saw them all as

and pushed her

she would come to trust

the girls were loudly chatting about the

before I had gone out there. The

do all of her punishing

made it

not mean the other girls

date from yesterday – who wasn’t Lilliana, much to her

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