Chapter 41

Emery slowly regained consciousness and what immediately greeted her was the pain behind her neck where she remembered being hit by the king. Cursing the king under her breath, she opened her eyes and noticed that it was a bit dark where she was so she thought that it was still probably dawn. But after a few minutes of gathering herself, she noticed that the ceiling she was staring at that moment was not the ceiling she used to see upon waking up in the West Palace. She turned her head to the side and saw two lamps giving her a better view of the room which was almost empty. Upon realizing that she was not in the West Palace, she shot up from her bed and saw the metal bars separating her from someone whose back was turned on her.

“What am I doing here?” she asked and she made sure that in every word, her annoyance was very much evident.

King Lawson shifted his attention to her and stood from his seat. With his open palm, he pointed at the small table near the metal bars where the que