69. A Vile Rat

The Count hurried down the corridor, he hadn't said anything, but in the little space his daughter had left open at the door, he caught sight of something that caught his eye from the side of his daughter's balcony and he feared that something bad was going to happen to her. The poor man did not distrust his daughter, but thought she was in danger. Something inside him told him that Henry might be the one who was hanging around, looking for a place to hide, but his home wouldn't be that place. Her loyalty to the Crown was above all else, and she would never allow her daughter to be touched by Henry, who was nothing more than a vile rat, not unlike her father, who had been able to betray his own family out of ambition.

Regina's heart was fluttering and it wasn't because of her recent surrender, it was because of the decision she had seen in her father's eyes, if someone came into her room they were going to discover her and she couldn't allow it.

"You've got to do something, Regina," H