Chapter 0134

Sabotage? The girls around us burst into loud chatter.

“Could it be possible? How would she do it?”

“Anything’s possible. She could have done it.”

“Someone get the guards! If it’s true, that’s an attempt on the Queen’s life!”

At the sound of that accusation, the guards closed in around my table. One of them scurried off, only to return quickly with Joseph himself in tow.

“This is getting out of hand,” I said. “Linda, tell them this wasn’t sabotage.

“Why would I?” Linda said. “How else would my appetizer make the Queen sick? You didn’t…. poison it,

did you, Piper?”

At the mention of poison, the crowd gasped.

“What? No!” I held my hands up, but the guards had taken renewed interest in me.

“What’s this about poison?” Joseph said, bullying his way to my side.

I said quickly.

the Queen!” Linda said, pointing. In the past five seconds, she had taken that

latched onto it, doubling down. Could she not simply see

keep her eggs on ice and they went bad,” I

he peered down the length of his nose at me.

accusation of poisoning is a serious matter,” he said.

have

investigate. But in the meantime, the accused should be

the sake of the Queen.”

dropped. “What?”

watched from very far back, near the edge of the gardens. Hopefully, she was too far away to

grabbed me roughly by the arm.

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I struggled, but they were trained soldiers, paid for their strength. Without

me. When he was close enough, he glared at the guard’s hold

Royal Highness,” Joseph said, dipping his head. “This is a serious matter. Please allow me permission to handle it as I

stared at him

Just how much free reign did this Captain of the

Guard usually have?

than your typical investigation, I have a

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