Chapter 0602

Nicholas, meanwhile, looked down and to the side. He wouldn't meet my gaze even as I walked nearer to him.

"Nick?" I prompted, fear weighing heavy on my heart.

*Unfortunately, that isn't all of the bad news I have to share," he said.

I braced myself. "What else?"

*Joyce has somehow escaped."

I gasped, shocked. How could that be? The youngest prince had been given the nicest prison cell I had ever seen in my life, but it was still a prison cell, buried deep under the palace grounds. This place is crawling with guards. How in the world would he escape?

And why would he want to? Veronica had been working with him, helping him understand the depths of his brainwashing. Had he reversed to his previous thinking in Veronica's absence?

Oh, God. Veronica was going to be devastated. She'd been working so hard with him. She saw part of herself in him, and sought to save them both. She would undoubtedly see this as her own failing.

uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them. Instead, it is

finally lifted his gaze to mine and I felt a pit open up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with

an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization?

with Joyce?" I

prince," Nicholas said. "If anything were to happen to my father, and then Julian and

I really didn't like that. Were the

with the Bear People to do the

myself. "The war makes

his face in the next instant,

"But the Bear People...?"

is already investigating, searching for the lost princess. Even if she

that. I trusted Julian. If anyone

I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to

lot to think over, to consider, and to

could be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and

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