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.”

squeeze, I released Elva and stood. Then I walked to the door, where Nicholas

he asked, as I stepped

I’d ever be ready to see Terry

anything happen to you,” Nicholas said, determination making

you have other

wait. Your

his

other candidates were already waiting around, while Nathan spoke

crew on a makeshift stage. Terry wasn’t there yet.

approached Nicholas and me when we entered. “Have you seen him yet?” she

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 with Nichola s’s closeness, I could not release the

rest. The candidates were in our nice gowns, with our

in them, Terry among

saw Terry, my stomach

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