Chapter 47: Ash

*LYCIA*

“Is something wrong?” I murmured to myself walking towards the palace garden that Esme had called me to. For some reason she had insisted we meet there but it was weird because she had sent a messenger to fetch me instead of coming to see me herself.

Did she need to talk to me secretly about something?

Seff had been gone for the past hour to talk to the King and Reemus about his departure from the kingdom back to my Coven so I had been killing time searching for Esme when I received the message.

I might sound like a bad friend but maybe I should have paid more attention to her instead of leaving her with a complete stranger.

“Shit, I probably need to apologize and do some damage control,” I muttered looking at the heavily guarded palace with Lycans staying put at their posts in utter discipline. Their eyes followed me periodically and every move I made was assessed to guess if I had been a person with ill intentions.

Well it was a given, I was the princess of the neighbor