CHAPTER ELEVENA few days later, the king called Lumina into his private study after witnessing a conversation in which she’d bored the grand prince senseless. The king ordered her to play nice and try to entertain the prince.
“Why should I play nice, Father?” she asked, refusing to sit down at the king’s gesture. “He acts as if I am his possession and he looks around as if he owns the place. I can see him already making plans about how to change things when I am queen. He also insults me at every chance he gets.”
“I’m sure he doesn’t mean it, Phoenix.”
Lumina changed tactics. “At the rate he’s going, Father, the likelihood of you being assassinated by the Avadierish so I can take control, and he can run the country through me, is increasing every day.”
This made the king pay attention—
