~Katrina~
I wasn't ashamed of Karl, not even for a second, if that's what he was thinking. Why would I be? He was the king. The most wanted man in Xylonia. Handsome. Powerful. Desired by every woman who had ever dreamed of sitting beside a crown. Some feared the stories about him, whispered warnings and rumors that followed him like a shadow. But even those didn't stop the women from wanting him.
That wasn't my reason for staying quiet.
I kept my mouth shut because I didn't want Queen Fortuna to find out just yet. The day she discovers what's really happening between me and Karl, it'll already be too late for her to pull any stunts. That's how I wanted it. She started the game. I was just playing along… maybe even better than her now.
"You stayed in there for too long, so we got worried," Rosalind said, her voice directed at Karl, not me.
He didn't answer. He just gave her one of those charming, unreadable smiles that made it hard to tell what he was really thinking.
