The Unshackled Queen: Never Say Never by Gilbert Soysal

With help, Joselyn was raised to her feet; her cheeks quickly swelled, and blood oozed from the corners of her mouth.

“Oh, dear God!”

Exclamations rippled through the onlookers.

Unperturbed by the attention, Hannah waved the hand that had just struck Joselyn’s face and fixed her gaze on Valery.

Taken aback by Hannah’s bold response, Valery retreated several steps.

“What are you so afraid of?”

Hannah advanced toward her, taunting, “You’ve traveled all this way to stir up trouble, and now you’re scared?”

“You! There are guests all around.

If you don’t want to lose face, you…”

Hannah’s violent tendencies before and had assumed that with Joselyn’s presence, she’d be protected this time, and

Hannah’s audacious slaps on Joselyn, panic

banquet had reached its

colossal cake resembling a castle, towering nearly two

pushed it toward the front of

mind too rattled to

was a

the cake

frantic retreat, she accidentally collided with someone

she lost her footing

“Ah! What’s going on?”

crowd erupted

just tumbled into

a stroke of bad

“Get her out quickly!”