Chapter Twenty-One: None Left

Marko N. I

'Return princess turns miraculous priestess; a tale of forbidden love.'

Again, Marko’s gaze strayed to the heading’s subtitle.

Return princess who discarded her title to be a priestess finds mate amid late-night purification rituals in the Chelsea slums.'

"Scandal on her first mission! God, we should have sent more men to keep her still."

An elder uttered furiously.

"Doesn't she understand that such behaviour can spark a war?"

Another responded.

But again, his eyes strayed to the title.

"But...are they really mates?"

Elder Brenda asked.

"If they are, we must consider a collaboration of sorts; you know how stupidly bound people behave if they are forced apart."

"They are not mates."

The answer came with more steadiness than he felt; for a second, he had not even realised that his voice rang across the room, silencing all commotion.

"Can your majesty say that with certainty?”

Elder Brenda responded.

“I know she is your sister, but with the history between the t