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.”

nice enough, much nicer than my previous guards. And if

vetted by Nicholas, then I had

of Elva. I believed him when he

was all I

Mark dropped to one knee to

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

you have

looked at him with wide

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

okay? Do you know

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

to his feet. “Are

cort your

sick, wouldn’t it,

since the day before, she still seemed nervous, especially

guards, Mark included.

were lost on her. She saw them all as the one

pushed her out of

would come to trust them again. At least, the

the girls were loudly chatting about the

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

do all of her punishing in

made it onto television, thank goodness. However,

the cameras didn’t catch it, did not mean the

Lilliana, much to her

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