By the late afternoon, word of Penelope’s remarkable survival had gotten around the Twilight Promenade packhouse. While Tobias was surprised by how calm the royal family were taking the news, there was one member of the royal family who had refused point blank to attend the all hands meeting that the King and Queen called once they’d caught wind of the article and been briefed on its contents. It seemed that perhaps they had suspected something after all, and perhaps had a plan in place for this eventual revelation.
Prince Reginald stood in front of 17 Promenade Avenue, staring up at the townhouse where he’d bid goodbye to his mate with the cruelest of rejections. He was no longer the young man that he was then; haughty, full of pretentious beliefs that his family only fed into with their
