Chapter Nine: Could It Be?

Caroline's POV

I walked back to the restaurant, thinking deeply about what Jon had said to me.

“Boris is not who you think he is.”

That statement kept ringing over and over in my head. If he wasn't the kind,. softhearted man, who has always been there for me, who was he then?

All through the day, I couldn't get the thought out of my head. I caught myself distracted over and over at work. Even my coworkers noticed that something was wrong and even asked if I'd prefer to leave, just so I wouldn't mess things up.

Two more hours, and I knew it was time to head back home. Thankfully, my decisions didn't have much of a consequence on my job, especially since Boris was involved. One more reason why I wondered what made Jon talk about him in that way.

“Maybe, he's just trying to turn me against Boris so that I'd return to him,” I thought in my heart as I left for home… Maybe.

As soon as I got home, I went straight to the throne room to have a peek at what was going on. I imagined that the