-SELENE-
"Guards! GUARDS!" The ice queen shouted, her voice booming across the castle. "Someone is trying to kill the First Prince."
"Noooo! I wasn't!" I spun toward the door, my chest heaving.
The queen was blocking it, her two ladies flanking her with a mixture of fear and confusion.
Queen Maeve’s gaze could’ve killed me on the spot. Her fingers curled into the velvet folds of her midnight-blue gown, clutching the fabric like she wished it were my throat.
"I told you to stay away from my son," She spoke with a velvet snarl. "You will learn what happens to people who don't listen to me, little witch."
I rose from the bed, heart pounding, eyes darting for an escape. There was none. The only door was the one the queen and her ladies were blocking.
"Lohe?" My gaze snapped back to him,
