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.

who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them. Instead,

open up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My

could appear and disappear in an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization?

could the underground organization want with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't he already served his

my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal claim to

really didn't like that. Were the underground planning on

with the Bear People

my arms around myself. "The

face in the next instant, taking away some of the worry with it. "Don't

"But the Bear People...?"

for the lost princess. Even if she is dead, Julian will find her bones and

to believe that. I trusted Julian. If

to feel overwhelmed. I

it was a lot to think over, to consider,

on me. I could be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and then I wouldn't be able to help with

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