Chapter 51
I woke up to find Everly sitting in the room looking at me with a wide, cat-eating-the-canary grin. “Hello,” said Everly, “are you happy to be home?”
I frowned. “This isn’t my home, Everly. Coleum was never home.”
“Of course, it wasn’t,” said Everly, “because you aren’t supposed to be the Princess. I am the Princess of Coleum. I am the only Princess of Coleum. If anyone should be Queen, it should be me. Not anyone else. Especially not some usurper.”
“What are you getting at?” I demanded.
“You know exactly what I’m getting at,” she said, “you are not the rightful heir. I am. So here what is going to happen. You are going to marry my brother. You are going to kill him on your honeymoon, and then you are going to get hanged for it.”
“What makes you think that I would ev
