Part 14

Celina woke up with a crick in her neck and face buried in odd-smelling sheets. The maid felt strange and disoriented for a handful of seconds, so unfamiliarly warm as if she’d fallen asleep in the sun. Fluttering her eyes open, she looked around and froze. In her stillness, she slowly became aware of a few things around her.

She was not in her room back in the Palace.

Holy Christ! The young maid thought and was thankfully awake enough to bite her tongue before blurting it out loud. Panic gripped her body tight, and she shot into a sitting position, heart beating so frantically that she feared can be heard echoing across the room. Unable to resist, she took another