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.

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regained my composure. "There's no

filed

reminded me of something. I called out to the

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

meat was renowned for being delicious and tender. Every time my father invited important guests, he would prepare

castle was abuzz with activity these days, so I reasoned that they

answer right away. They exchanged glances with each other, hesitating to reveal the truth

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

my father that

has ordered

this issue carefully. I won't run away from the wedding. You can go and relay this message to him," I interrupted the

my wedding, 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 regain my freedom was not

but to follow my instructions and give my

walked into the dressing room. I casually placed the pendant aside and changed into a white camisole

lace on the hemline of my dress and studied myself in the mirror, my thoughts running amok. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the FindNøvᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to

face and muted eyes was actually

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