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Chapter 9

Author: JENNIFER REGINALD
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-02 15:26:28

~SURI~

Maybe if I refuse to eat, I will look weaker and get to stay here longer.

That is the plan I commit to for the next few hours after waking up. In my defense, I do not even have an appetite, especially not with the bland food they keep bringing me since yesterday. Also, my stomach is twisted in knots from the anticipation. Honestly, only a tree knows it is about to be chopped and still stands there doing nothing. I am not that brave.

I don't see the King, or even his grandmother, for the rest of yesterday after they left the bedroom. The only ones who enter are the servants who bring breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I ate only breakfast and refused to touch my lunch or dinner. By the next morning, I feel stronger, but I'm also restless and dying of hunger. My stomach growls so loudly that the walls should complain. Still, I only pace around the bedroom, thinking of what the King might plan to do with me now that he knows who I am and that he was deceived into taking me. Will he tur
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