Arkin was being suspicious and extremely evasive. He was definitely hiding something but I didn’t know what it was. What I did know, however, was the fact that he was spending a lot of time outside the Palace; which worried and intrigued me at the same time.
Every time I asked him about it, he would either silence me with a kiss so intense it left me dizzy or he would tell me to be patient and that he would tell me in due time. I didn’t know how much more time he needed and him being out all the time just had me thinking the worst.
Prince Godfrey and Prince Odel requested me to take a stroll with them but I was too worried about Arkin to agree. I told them I’d walk with them some other day. And before they could argue both of them were summoned by the King, so they had no choice but to
