Tied to the Crown by Neha Yazmin

Author:Neha Yazmin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mermaids
Publisher: Neha Yazmin

She was quite certain that she wasn’t in love with Seth. She didn’t want to kiss him, or touch him, or think about doing any of those things with him. Why, then, had it felt like her heart had broken every time she’d sent him away from her rooms these last few days? And each time he walked away, why did she long to call him back? It was crazy, this intense need to see him, to make sure he was alright, an odd sort of magic.

Hadn’t Micah’s mother said that the Fresdan curse not only left the second brother ill, but also drew people to them, pulled at their hearts? Well, Seth had managed to weave himself into Aaryana’s heart, and she couldn’t cut him out. It was torture, staying away from him, but she did, as per Wyett’s orders.

Wyett! The Prince was insufferable at the best of times, and heartless at the worst. He had come close to making her cry on Monday, when he’d told her that he could never feel anything for someone like her. I can’t see how anyone could. What a horrible thing to say! Did he not care that words could cut as deeply as blades?

Aaryana had gone straight to her room after that, and locked the door. She told Jeena she wasn’t feeling well when the girl came to help her get ready for dinner.

“I think I’m coming down with something,” she’d lied, not wanting to face Wyett over the dining table. Not when he’d seen her eyes tearing up. “And I don’t think I should eat anything tonight, Jeena. I’m not sure I can keep it down.”

She wrote a quick message to the King and sent it to his secretary via Jeena, saying that she was indisposed. It was the first of three notes she wrote to him, cryptically excusing herself from the secret debriefings in his office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night. She was terribly ill, she said, highly contagious perhaps, and so wasn’t leaving her chambers until it was safe for her fellow Courtiers to come into contact with her. The King wished her a quick recovery each time and left her in peace.

She hoped he didn’t harbour any hard feelings towards her for delaying the uncovering of his enemies at Court. Hopefully, he’d realised by now that whoever was plotting against him was too clever to leave a trail.

If she’d hoped that Wyett would check in on her, she would have been disappointed. In fact, when she’d coaxed Jeena into telling her how Wyett was behaving in her absence, the girl said that the Prince seemed “positively delighted.” He was clearly enjoying not having to make everyone think that he was in love with her. Should he be giving people this impression? Wouldn’t the King rebuke him for looking so pleased when his so-called lover was ill? What was Wyett playing at?

Unless, he knew, somehow, that she was pretending? Yet, she couldn’t see how he’d come to that conclusion; her maid and guards were convinced of her condition.

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