Chapter 40

HEAD TASKMASTER

The girls have been muttering more than usual today, and everywhere seems to be more annoying than it usually is. Everywhere I go, it feels like someone is whispering, and they say that whispers spread like wildfire, and this one seems to have gotten to everyone else except me.

Not that I mind. I have too much work to do than to be worrying about who has found whose mate and what is happening to anyone else.

“She has gone!” is what I hear from a maid and her co-worker as they pass by me.

I don’t indicate any interest in what they are talking about, as I am still thinking about what to do to Hazel in a way that will not upset the king. I call for one of the head maids.

“Send for Hazel to come to me,” I tell her as she answers, but she shrugs.

“Sir, she is not around,” the head maid tells me.

“Is today her day off?” I question.

She sighs. “Well, she hasn’t been getting jobs allocated to her, so it’s like the witch has a free day every day.”

“Let me know when she is back