Micah's Fault

|Princess Zoey’s Point Of View|

The eerie silence of the palace gives me chills. Even past 6 am, we worked on finding the culprit from the guests of the masquerade ball. But it was impossible because, according to the workers, no one had worn the sea blue colour as the night's colours were dark colours.

It made us wonder what the whole mix-up was. Finally, James concluded maybe the murderer appeared to wear blue at that moment, or maybe it was a whole other person from the outside of the palace.

Things gave me a headache, so I threw things across the room and asked everyone to leave. As expected, Micah didn't leave and convinced me to take some rest. So at 6 am, I finally went to sleep with him watching over me.

In my dreams, it is only the Viscountess whispering to me that I am the reason why she got killed... that all the chaos is happening because of me.

I wake up gasping for air and feel fear creeping through my body. But Micah soothes me down, and I realise he hasn't got a wi