Chapter Sixty-One

M I K H A I L

I swallow hard as I hear those words, but I don’t dare react. I just sit there with my face as poker as possible, trying my best not to let a single emotion show.

King Lucien turns to me. “I gather you are the CEO and the current king.”

“Yes,” is the only thing I can manage to say,

“How long have you been leading?”

I look up to meet his eyes. “Since I was eighteen.”

He nods slowly, and I can tell that he’s impressed. It feels weird to me. Does he have no idea about the recent events? I wonder how he will react then, if he finds out that the only reason I’m here is because I killed someone and now I’m being forced into this relationship in order to cover things up.

“So you have the full experience, then,” he says. “That’s impressive.”

His wife and his daughter both nod in agreement, which almost makes me scoff. Thankfully, I stop myself. But that doesn’t mean I want this whole thing to continue. I’m watching the princess and I can tell that she’s deeply uncomfortable abou