“Alright, I will tell her everything the night before the wedding, but our deal is still the same. It's binding so even if she
doesn’t like what she hears, she has made a promise to marry me for the sake of her brother’s life.”
“You know as well as I do, that kiss you made her give you isn’t binding. Blood is what will bind that kind of deal and until
then, she is free to leave. You just don’t want her to.”
Now she was trying my patience. If she wasn’t my sister, I would have thrown her across the room and out the door. Of
course, April would beat me to death with a stick if she knew I did such a thing. As much as I was the oldest, April’s temper
wasn’t something I liked to mess with.
“Well, we shall see. Now, I suggest you leave, otherwise you will have to deal with seeing your brother naked.”
Her storm stopped as quickly as it had started. My sister glared at me, her eyes widened in shock then narrowed in
suspicion.If looks could kill. Waving her hand at me and clicking two fingers together, a wind circled her body as she faded
away.
“Tell her, Nic!”
Her voice shouted in my mind as I headed towards my bathing room. I needed to soothe my muscles and contemplate her
words.
Chapter 25
ORNELLA
“I ’m tired of being stuck here, Morg. I want to visit the city, to see the people. I know Nicholas—his majesty, wishes to
keep me safe but I am starting to lose my mind.”
Chucking off my mud-covered boots and throwing them across my bedroom floor, Morgana laughed a little under her
breath as she laid down on my bed, flicking through a book I’d left on the nightstand.
“I didn’t leave a prison to be locked in another. Can we please just…I don’t know, sneak out of here and visit a market or
something, please?”
I got down on my knees and clasped my hands together, almost praying, begging her to take me somewhere. Anywhere that
wasn’t inside the walls of this castle or the grounds surrounding it. I needed adventure, I craved it.
“Nic will not be happy if I were to sneak you out of here, Nella. And princesses do not beg, so get up.”
My head lowered as a sigh escaped my lips as I pushed myself off the floor. Heading behind the changing screen, I threw
off my clothes and grabbed the purple velvet dress that hung over it. I’d left it there a day or two ago, still wondering if I liked
it. Having yet to receive my new clothes, I was stuck rotating the same few garments.
“I will speak to my brother tonight and see if he will allow you to be escorted to the markets in the morning. You do need
new clothes and you cannot continue waiting on the seamstress to finish up.”
