30
Hayley
From the balcony, I watched the party in the garden below.
It had been a month since we defeated Vasant and his soldiers surrendered. The situation in the villages across the Spring Court was slowly getting better, but there was still a lot of work to do. Despite my protests to keep working nonstop, Ash had convinced me that it was time to take a short break, even if only for two days, and hold a real coronation ceremony. He said the fae were anxious to see me as the queen, to have a real ruler back.
“They need a strong figure,” Ash had said, and I had almost laughed in his face. Strong figure? That wasn’t me. But that didn’t mean I wouldn’t try my hardest to give the people all they wanted, all they needed.
So we held the coronation ceremony. We had invited all the royals f
