Chapter 168

They become deadly when they are quiet, his father always said to him.

Vetta got up then. “I have to go. I have an appointment with a healer.”

Why would she have an appointment with a healer? Was she sick? Why did she come at all when she wasn’t going to give him a plan?

He watched her warily and realized that there was something different about her. She looked… colder, meaner.

“The courting week is ending tomorrow morning. I plan to be in the king’s bed tomorrow night,” Vetta informed him.

“Wouldn’t he want to spend that time with Danika?” She’d told him once before how the king favored Danika’s bed to hers. He wouldn’t blame the king. Princess Danika was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life, and not to mention that air of royalty around her wherever she went.

It had been almost a year in slavery for her, but that had never changed. Her elegance and royal sophistication remained as obvious as if she still had the expensive clothe