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“Sadie, how are you doing this morning?”

“Oh, my princess. You can’t imagine how scared I was when I woke up and couldn’t find you on the bed. It was Sir Cedric that told me that the king summoned you. I was so scared that the king had killed you.”

The king had killed her, but it wasn’t the way Sadie was thinking. Daphne kept the thought to herself.

Together, they walked into the room, which looke