Aria pov"Stay outside. They are still sleeping." I could hear Erika's voice from outside the room. What was going on? It sounded like Erika was arguing with someone outside."I have an early appointment with prince Zane." Princess Thaisa argue."I don't how you do things in survnial. But here in Esterial, the servant doesn't disturb the master when he's busy. As you can see my prince is still sleeping with his fiance inside. No one is allowed to disturb them, not even you princess Thaisa." "I will like to see you stop me." Princess Thaisa snarled at Erika. "My princess, Erika is right. As you can see we are all waiting outside until we are allowed to go in." Aidan said. Those that mean Aidan and Nadia were outside too? The thought of them being outside made me feel relieved that Erika wasn't fighting Thaisa by herself. Thaisa could easily force her way through Erika if she wanted to. Because she was human. I turned to the other side of the bed and faced prince Zane. He was still

Aria povI have never been the kind of girl who hangs out with other girls. Before I left dreamstake pack, my best friends were all guys. Our friendship lasted for a few years until two thought that killing me was a great idea. I won't deny the fact that I did deserve it, but just because I deserve it means that I wanted to die. I was the first one who got betrayed by them anyway. So I feel nothing about what I did. I was in a different garden at the palace with princess Thaisa. I know what anyone might what to ask, what was I doing in a garden, peacefully sipping tea with princess Thaisa? Even though we weren't even friends. Well to cool anyone's mind. I wasn't the one who made the first approach, I wasn't even a tea person but princess Thaisa didn't need to know that. Right now she was right where I want her. Unlike every other garden in the palace. This one was different, I don't know how the flowers were grown because it was in the palace, flourishing as though they were planted

Aria pov"Are they gone?" I asked Erika as I slowly took a little sip of my tea. I don't know if it was because of what was going to happen today. My tea was tasting sweet. I was in the garden Thaisa had brought me to, the day I push her off the balcony. I smiled as I thought back to that day. "Yes, my lady. Princess Thaisa was putting on the gown you bought for her." The stage has been set, the characters are ready. I took another sip of my tea and nodded at Erika's words. "Can I sit with you?" Erika ask. "Of course." Erika sat down and poured herself tea. Princess Thaisa wasn't going to last one hour on her outing with prince Zane. She might not even last thirty minutes."My lady..." Erika hesitated on her words. "Perhaps... I think... Maybe we went a little bit too far this time." I remove my gaze from the flowers that haven't fully bloomed yet and look at Erika. Was she starting to feel guilty? Or was she afraid that Thaisa was going to die? "We can't create a sleeping b

Aria povThe doors to lady Brunhilda's chamber opened, I look at it in expectation, hoping that the one coming in was lady Brunhilda. But it was just Erika. We were both nervous, but I needed to calm myself for Erika's sake. Don't want her getting scared, even though there was something to be scared about. The whole palace was on fire, king Edward found out about his daughter and he was furious. Never had such a thing happened in Esterial before. A member of the Athelstan family got attacked, it was unheard of. A meeting had been called between kings and nobles. Prince Zane send Nadia to instruct me to stay in my room, I wasn't allowed to go out. But I was too curious and impatient to know what was happening, so I didn't listen to him. I left my room and went to lady Brunhilda's chamber in hope that she might have an idea of what was going on. But lady Brunhilda still hasn't returned from the meeting with the nobles. If a meeting called by king Edward was being held, that meant prin

Aria pov"My lady! Have you been to town?" Erika asked.That was a dumb question. She of all people should know about how I was encaged in the palace, I'm either allowed to escape with her or if prince Zane invited me out. I can't remember the last time he did that. Probably he might never take me out again because of the recent events and my crimes. "Everyone in town loves you. News got out of how prince Zane's fiance fought for the humans of Esterial. Everyone in town wants to meet you. I heard that even the human delegate wants to meet you, my lady." Erika was all excitedI didn't know if I should be happy or scared. If it was just the humans of Esterial that wanted to meet me then it wouldn't be so bad but if it was the delegate then things were looking pretty bad for me. I'm sure he kept documents to know which humans came from which country, having an investigation being done on me was going to be a problem. Because there was I high possibility of me being found. And that might