Daphne
There was a moment of stunned silence. I stared at Louis with my mouth hanging open. Surely, he hadn’t just said what I thought he had said. But the way he was staring at me assured me that I had heard him just fine.
Across the table, Pilar sat, stunned and horrified, frozen in place. Then she let out a shrill giggle. “Oh, you are kidding. You must be kidding, right?”
Louis gave her a cold look that would have shriveled a more intelligent woman in her seat. He pushed back his chair and stood with graceful dignity, towering over both of us, before he held out his hand to me. “Let’s go.”
I scrambled out of my chair, still so shocked that I didn’t know what to do, what to say. Should I deny it? Should I go along with what the king had stated so seriously and factually? W
