CHAPTER TWENTY
What changes in a palace after the king's most loyal friend is arrested? Nothing apparently. Business as usual.
When Etta dragged herself from bed after only a few hours of sleep, she swiftly dressed and twisted her hair into a braid before walking the short distance to the king's room.
She didn't know what she expected to find. He'd still been devastated when they parted the night before. After the revelations in the night with the queen and Prince Tyson, or not prince as the case may be, everything else felt so far away. There'd been only her past and her family's history on her mind.
Now the king was front and center in her head, where he belonged. She hated the thought of leaving him, especially when he was so hurt. She didn't trust anyone else to protect him. That w
