Princess BMX by Marie Basting

Author:Marie Basting
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Chicken House

I wrapped the blanket around my legs, the flickering oil lamp casting long shadows around my chambers. I stared down at the BMX book I’d borrowed from Ethan. I must have read the same line about ten times now. It just wasn’t going in. I thought about getting back in bed, but there was like zero point. No way was I going back to sleep with everything that was whirling around in my head. And now on top of Mum and Dad’s skeletons, I was banned from going to the Kingdom of Camden. No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t get Mum to change her mind.

I sighed and pulled back the velvet drape. The first sun was beginning to rise and the sky was the colour of blueberries. I looked out across the shadowy kingdom – the kingdom that would one day be mine. I’d never felt so lonely in my life. I really needed a cuddle from Jeb, but Mum said he wasn’t allowed to sleep in my room for a month as part of my punishment for not sealing the portal. How could she do that to us? Poor Jeb. He looked so sad going to bed with grumpy Bertie. He just didn’t understand.

Ethan wouldn’t understand either. I couldn’t bear the thought of him thinking I’d just given up on our friendship. Or what if he thought something bad had happened to me? He’d be so worried. I had to go and see him one more time, tell him the truth, even if he didn’t believe me—

Footsteps thundered along the corridor outside my chambers. A fist thumped against my bedroom door.

‘Yes?’

‘Lady Jemima Jeopardy here, Your Highness.

The King asked me to check on you.’

‘I’m fine.’ I like so didn’t need a knight in my room right now.

‘I’m to take you downstairs immediately,’ she said.

I climbed down from the window seat and fastened my dressing gown.

‘Immediately,’ she repeated.

More footsteps, this time they were accompanied by urgent voices.

‘Ma’am, I’m coming in.’

Sword in one hand, her unicorn-embossed shield in the other, Lady Jemima Jeopardy kicked the door open and stormed into the room her thick, waist-length plaits swinging from side to side. She touched my arm like she was making sure I was real, then searched under the bed and in the closet. Scanning the room, she ran over to the window and poked the curtains with her sword.

‘Sorry to alarm you, Your Highness,’ she said, straightening her silver helmet. ‘Only there’s been a security breach.’

‘In the castle?’ How was that even possible? Nothing could get past the security charm – family and invited guests only.

‘Yes, Your Highness, in the castle. Your parents are waiting in the study. Hurry, please.’

And then it hit me like the stench of Swamp Diavolo – thanks to me there was a new family member in town. Odette.

‘Bertie and Jeb,’ I said, the words catching in my throat. ‘We need to check on them.’

Lady Jemima Jeopardy blew her blonde fringe out of her eyes. ‘My instructions are to take you straight downstairs.

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