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

shook my head and regained my composure. "There's

filed out

I called out to the guards

his men to the East Sea to capture globefishes. The globefishes were only found in the sea near the Silver Moon

was renowned for being delicious and tender. Every time my

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

the guards didn't give me an answer right away. They exchanged glances with

my room, my father's spies had

coldly. "Go and inform my father that I will be attending the

ordered you to stay in your

away from the wedding. You can go and relay this message to him," I interrupted

so I would just have to show him that I had no 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 list. Making this small sacrifice for a while to

but to follow my instructions and give my

room. I casually placed the

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

face and muted

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