Two More Days by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Bookworm Box
Published: 2021-10-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

THE CEREMONY WAS too long. I fidgeted in line as I waited to present my gifts to the baby. I couldn’t even focus on King Xander or Queen Rosalie or the beautiful girl in her arms.

Violet Anne was her name. I curtseyed, presented the gifts from my family, but when I looked up at the handsome Xander, now king, I found I felt nothing. Had I already replaced him in my heart so easily? I met Queen Rosalie’s gaze and felt a small smile rise to my lips. Her face glowed with love when she looked at her husband. Did I have blinders on my eyes before? I didn’t see a cruel witch who had bespelled my childhood love, but instead saw a kindhearted queen.

“Blessings to you, King Xander and Queen Rosalie, and blessings to Princess Violet from the Nueva family. May your family’s reign be long and your lives be filled with love and laughter.” My greeting was sincere. Shock registered on Queen Rosalie’s and King Xander’s faces.

King Xander spoke up. “I heard about the attack last night on your way here. My sincerest apologies. It seems that you are well?”

My heart didn’t flutter when he spoke. “I’m very well, thanks to your man Bryce Collinsworth for stepping in to rescue me and my maid.”

King Xander frowned. “I admit, I know of no man by that name.”

“It’s no lie, Your Majesty, I swear,” I answered quickly, knowing that lies used to flow from my mouth easily.

“I will look into this matter further.” He stepped back up to the throne, and Queen Rosalie passed off her daughter to her husband and came to speak to me.

She laid a hand on my shoulder and whispered into my ear. “Yasmin, once I thought us to be enemies, and even now as you walked into my hall, I believed you would carry nothing but hate toward me. But I see a different woman before me today.”

“I’ve grown, Your Majesty. I’m not the spoiled, selfish girl I once was.”

“I can see that. I know that if the circumstances were reversed, I would have hated me as well. I don’t think we can be friends, but maybe acquaintances.”

I nodded as she stepped back to her golden chair. I turned to walk back toward the doors as the next person came to give their gift.

People were pointing to me as I passed, and I gently touched my perfectly coiffed curls. Were they saying that I was a liar? Talking about how I was the one who had been cast off? My heart was racing, and I wanted to run away from the rumors.

The whole procession passed, and Bryce never made an appearance. Even when we moved to the ballroom to continue the celebration, he never showed. The periwinkle blue silk dress I wore complemented my eyes, making them look big and doe-like. Audrey had spent hours doing my hair, putting each curl into its proper place. My dresses were all low and revealing, but I

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