Chapter 12

Azeph kept flipping thepugh the samples as if nothing happened. But the other three students who were doing their best to ignore her presence froze and looked at her.

Did people expect her to break down in tears every time they mentioned Nick?

“ He would've hated it,” she said with a small smile.

“ The color or the ball?” Azeph asked

“ Both, he used to say that white isn’t a color,” she answered, “ The royal aides had a hard time cornering him into arranging events like this. They often came to Louis and I for help. Which is why I know quite a bit about preparing things like this.”

“When you talk like this, he sounds like an ordinary person, like all of us,” Stella finally said and Elinor smiled.

“ That’s because he was. Although he would’ve made a perfect ruler,” She added

Looking up she found everyone’s attention on her. This happened every time she talked about Nick. The love of his people was apparent theough their eyes ecery time someone talked about him. Even this ball theme, it