CHAPTER 3RHYANNE"Are you insane?" Cassian's voice cracked through the silence like a whip, his hand still hanging in the air. "Do you have any idea what you just did?"I did. I knew exactly what I'd done.I didn't answer him, there was nothing left to say that wouldn't make this worse, it's best I kept my mouth shut at this point.The hall still hadn't found its voice, but it was coming back in pieces— whispers here, a scandalized breath there, building like a storm: slowly and then all at once."Did you see that?""She struck him. Struck the crown prince, in front of the entire court—""The nerve of her. The absolute nerve—""An omega, no less. A servant—"I kept my eyes down, and let the words roll over me. I'd been called worse, I'd survive being called worse again. What I hadn't expected was the sound of boots against marble— two palace guards moving toward me."Seize her," a wolf yelled from the crowd, gleeful, and eager for a spectacle, my pulse spiked, and my wolf stirred fa
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