Chapter 0289

“Don’t worry,” Mark told me. “I will not leave this room. Elva will not leave my sight.”

I nodded. That did make me feel marginally better.

We’d received word earlier in the day that Terry himself was coming to the palace to personally deliver the results of his event. Since then, we’d mostly barricaded ourselves inside of the bedroom.

However, I was required to attend this meeting, which was to be treated as an official event, broadcasted live across the kingdom.

I wasn’t looking forward to seeing Terry again, by any stretch. But at least, with Mark’s promise to protect Elva, I didn’t have to worry about her.

I hugged Elva goodbye.

“Good luck, Mommy!” she said brightly. Thank G od I had protected her from the worst of the trauma I had experienced from Terry’s hands. I would rip the whole world apart before I ever let Terry enter within a hundred feet of my daughter.

“Be good, Elva. Listen to Mark and the nanny.”

“I will.”

Then I walked

as I stepped

I’d ever be ready to

to you,” Nicholas said, determination making his voice strong. “I will be

sure you have

can wait. Your

my arm with his and together,

the other candidates were already waiting around, while Nathan spoke

wasn’t there yet. Neither was the rest of the royal

entered. “Have you

I shook my head.

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of seeing Terry, or the knowledge that he was in the same building, but my nerves pri ckled since coming here. Even

informal, compared to the rest. The candidates were in our nice gowns, with our hair and makeup done in the modern fashion. But there were no

came in them, Terry among them, with Julian sauntering along

Terry, my stomach

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