Alina's POV:

The guards' voice came from outside.

I instantly spun around and ran out. "Help! There is an assassin in my room!"

The guards quickly rushed to me and surrounded me protectively. "Where is the assassin, Miss Quinn?"

"In my room! Go and catch her!"

They charged into my room, well-armed with weapons, but were stumped. "Miss Quinn, there is no trace of an assassin here..."

"How is that possible?"

I pushed them aside from behind and discovered that there was indeed no assassin in my room. The woman in the black cloak had already escaped.

Witches were skilled at concealing themselves and using magic. If I wasn't holding the pendant that she gave me in my hand as proof, I would have thought that I had just hallucinated our encounter.

The guards did a thorough sweep of the room again, but failed to find the witch.

don'tyoushifttoanotherroom?" one of

and regained my composure. "There's

guards obeyed and filed out

eyes fell on the pendant, which suddenly reminded me of something. I called out to the guards to stop them and asked,

East Sea to capture globefishes. The

was renowned for being delicious and tender. Every time my

so I reasoned that they had been busy making

give me an answer right away. They exchanged glances with each other, hesitating to reveal

room, my father's

and inform my father that I will

ordered

I won't run away from the wedding. You can go and

intention of doing so. Right now, he was more focused on Sylvia and the other guests, and I was probably quite low on his priority

but to follow my

heel and walked into the dressing room. I

on the hemline of my dress and studied myself in the mirror, my thoughts running amok.

face and muted eyes was

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