Chapter 51

Backstage at the banquet.

The hotel manager glared furiously at Sebastian Vesper. "You've really got some nerve, you know that? You'd even dare cross the prince of the city's elite?"

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you've caused me?"

Sebastian kept his head low, blood trickling steadily from his wounds, but he acted as if he didn't feel a thing. Bent at the waist, he apologized over and over. "I'm sorry, sir. I really am."

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I promise it won't happen again."

He hadn't made a sound when he was nearly beaten to death, but right now, he stood there-head bowed, swallowing his pride.

"Again? You think there'll be a next time?" The manager let out a cold laugh.

"Take your pay and get out." He transferred today's wages with a flick of his phone.

Knowing there was no point in pleading, Sebastian said nothing more.

He changed out of his uniform, limped out the hotel's back door, and disappeared into the night.

the last traces of moonlight. Sebastian didn't bother going to the hospital. He took his battered body straight to his

collapsing onto his narrow bed that

breathtaking-so beautiful it almost hurt to look at her. Even Sebastian, who prided himself on

later, he would

a princess, looking down at him with an air of untouchable grace. In

knew it was her who called

was the one

it hadn't been for her, he wouldn't have walked out of that hotel on his own two feet. They'd have carried him out on a

Carmichael family's banquet had ended, Citrine

two hadn't shown up, felt a

had gotten stranger and more unpredictable over the years; their absence was honestly a blessing. If they'd come, tonight's

Citrine started keeping an eye on the news

the trending topics would last a few more days, and he'd

with more and more people hurling

the words now, the harder it'll

Citrine scheduled a post she'd

first image showed a detailed record of every transaction between Citrine and the Iverson family since she was a child—including every allowance, every bank transfer from Aline, and receipts from meals she'd paid for out of her own

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