Emery's POV: I paced around impatiently lost in thought while my best friend and personal servant Maria watched me in confusion. "Is anything the matter, Emery?" She broke the silence, and I turned to her with a disturbed look. I was trying to wrap my head around whom that slave I just saw was. "Have you seen her before?" I gulped hard. She stared at me with narrowed eyebrows. "Who are you talking about?" She finally spoke up after staring at me for some minutes. I sat heavily on my bouncing bed. "What kind of question is that? I'm talking about the new slave, why does she look like a princess instead of a slave?" I bit my lower lips with worry written all over my face. Don't know why I'm worried, but something in me keeps making in uncomfortable about her. "She's the new slave

