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.

why don'tyoushifttoanotherroom?" one of the

head and regained my composure. "There's no need. You can leave

and filed out of the

suddenly reminded me of something. I called out to the guards

father had sent his men to the East Sea to capture globefishes. The globefishes were only found in the

being delicious and tender. Every time my father invited important guests,

was abuzz with activity these days, so I reasoned that they had been busy making preparations for the

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

been confined to my room, my father's spies had replaced

and inform my father

Leonard has ordered you to stay in your

from the wedding. You can go and relay this message

he was more focused on

had no choice but to follow my instructions and

my heel and walked into the dressing room. I casually placed the pendant

my dress and studied myself in the mirror, my thoughts

face and muted eyes

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