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.”

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

personally vetted by Nicholas, then I had little reason to

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

safe. Really, that was all I could

dropped to one knee

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

now on, you have my

just looked at him with wide

ever scared, and your mom or Prince Nicholas

me, okay? Do

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

he said, smile restored. He rose to his

cort your

sick, wouldn’t

lot since the day before, she still

guards, Mark included.

differences in their outfits were lost on her. She saw them all

and pushed her out of

trust them

breakfast, the girls were loudly chatting about the previous day’s

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

all of

meant that none of Elva’s endangerment made it onto television, thank

the cameras didn’t catch it, did not mean the other girls had not heard of

who wasn’t Lilliana, much to her obvious irritation

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