"Very well then" Bella said with a prideful tilt of her chin. "You may work in the castle. But if I do not see your owrth I shall behead you" Ivan's lips curved up in a bright grin and for once in the few years that The Ice Queen had ruled, emotions flickered in her eyes- The Ice Queen. I didn't sleep well that night. Or the next night. Or the night after that. Guilt was knawing at my chest and eating me alive like that flesh eating parasite. In my own defence, I'd assumed that he was there to feed me more lies because everyone knows just how manipulative the King could be. However, everyone needed a chance to talk when something happens and I hadn't given him that because I was blinded by my own anger. I was seriously confused. Could I believe him or was he trying to get into my