Book 5: Crowned

Ingrid

I grumble my way out of bed on the morning of Kaloni’s coronation. With everything that’s happened, I haven’t been getting nearly as much sleep as I should. Hell, I spent half of yesterday with my… uncle, Lord Faruk, trying not to roll my eyes every time he spoke.

Amval might be right about him. At the very least, he’s one of the most self-obsessed men I’ve ever met.

Someone knocks on my door, and I stumble into a robe, expecting Kaloni with a new slate of demands. Instead, I find Candace and Eva, glowing with excitement.

I throw my arms around them. They arrived a couple of days ago, but I haven’t had any time to spend with them yet.

“I missed you,” I mumble into Candace’s shoulder.

She squeezes me tighter. “Then sit down and let me fuss over you.”

“Goddess above, that sounds wonderful.”

Before long, dresses in every color of the rainbow cover the front of my room, and cosmetics coat the back. Joli wanders in a