Chapter 132
Annalise
The silence in the palace was suffocating. It wasn’t the absence of people—no, the halls were as busy as ever, servants and guards moving about their duties—but rather the deliberate absence of answers.
Everywhere I turned, I was met with the same response.
“The Kings have gone outside the walls for Kingdom matters.”
All three of them?
“Yes, My Queen.”
Lies.
They were lying to me. I could feel it in the way their eyes averted, in the way their voices held the same rehearsed cadence, as though the words had been drilled into them before I could even ask. I wasn’t a fool. Something was happening—something that had forced my mates to leave. But why? And why keep me in the dark?
At first, I had entertained the bitter notion that this was their way of paying me bac
