Chapter 0053
Nicholas
I had no idea why I decided to help Piper. She had betrayed me in the past. By all accounts, I should
have been pleased to see her fail.
Yet, when I stood outside the sitting room and heard Lena suggest the traditional punishment for Piper, I
couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing.
The thought of Piper kneeling out in a storm, soaked, chilled, and miserable sent an unfamiliar tremor of
rage through me.
I didn’t feel strong emotions like that anymore, not since I turned off my heart three years ago. But this
hot anger had been enough to melt through my emotional freeze.
I couldn’t be detached, not with this.
Ambassador Zale had taught the royal family the secret Merfolk greeting only a few hours before. The
timing had been peculiar, almost as if he had expected us to utilize this new knowledge to help the girls
with the challenge, if we so wished.
I hadn’t intended to teach the greeting to anyone. But that had been before the Queen threatened Piper
over something as trivial as glove length.
An insult to the royal family, the Queen had said. Unlikely. She had always been fickle with such frivolous
things, but never to such an extent that she would exert so vicious a punishment.
This felt purposeful, like Piper was being targeted.
I’d known she’d garnered unwanted attention simply by being here, but to see my own family participate
in the cruelty made my insides twist.
We were hoping to earn the favor of our kingdom’s people, and yet, the Queen herself was going to
punish one of them for not knowing her obscure, unspoken rules.
Yes, with the future of the kingdom in mind, I could almost pretend that I was helping Piper selflessly, to
continue to gamer goodwill with the populace.
However, my heart knew the truth. I sent Mark to teach Piper the secret greeting solely because I
wanted to
Now watching her dance with Zale while everyone else in the room stared in either shock or jealousy.
sir.”
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