MARGUERITE’S POV:
Shafts of fear shoot up and down my spine and stab my flesh in all directions, causing my body to judder and my eyes to blink multiple times.
I underestimate the circumstances so much so that I might be paying the price sooner than I could ever imagine. During the first round of the competition, the possibility that there might be a thorough background investigation to find out whether the participants were lying or not crossed my mind, but to actually hear that it’s really gonna happen frightens me.
Being exposed that I lied in some of the questions asked by the judges is just a tiny fracture of my fear. The massive part of that fear is, what if they find out that I’m Captain Haile’s mate who decided to take on the terrifyingly dangerous responsibility of saving him
