If Adela thought that it would be quiet without Lucia, she was wrong. Gustav was coming back to the country and he wanted a meeting with her father. She had to be there too. Her father had insisted that if she was going to be the queen of Myria, she needed to start getting fully involved in what was happening. So here she was, once more in the same day waiting in her driveway in the same morning. This time it was her fiancé's car that pulled into the driveway. This time it was King Gustav who got out of the car, but he was not alone; he had Azure Snow with him.
Adela watched the pair with an expressionless face as they got out of the car. She saw how Azure hesitated for a bit and looked at the Myrian king. She saw how he nodded at her in reassurance and the hand he placed at the small of her back. She was focused on feeling nothing. Showing nothing. That was all that mattered. She ignored the icy feeling growing in her chest. She resisted the urge to ball her hands into fists.
