Chapter 97
"Princess! News is spreading throughout the castle that you have called off your engagement to the king of the north. Is it true?" Gina asked with anxious eyes. Everyone feared what would happen to them now that Killian no longer had something to stop him from destroying the castle. "It could not be true. You two were doing so well-"
"It is true," Amelia replied as she read the paper a servant bought her about news from the town. Though she saw a creature around the men Killian killed, all of the bodies were found by chance last night and news of it was already sent around. "What a pain in the ass."
"Princess," Gina stared at Amelia in disbelief. "Do you wish to get us all killed? This isn’t something you can call off and then sit around acting like everything is fine. Why did you call it off?"
"The court minister won’t let me be present for the truce," said Amelia.
"Ha!" Gina raked her fingers through her hair still in disbelief. "You’ll jeopardize our safety for that?"
"No one will get hurt," Amelia confidently spoke. If Killian had any intention to start killing anyone, he would have done so already. Besides, she knew how much he wanted her by his side to keep entertaining him. If he killed one more person in this castle, they both knew she would rather die than be by his side.
"How can you be so sure of that?" Gina argued. She didn’t see now as the time to be playing around because Amelia could not get into the meeting. Gina turned to Cyrus who had been quiet all this while. "Why aren’t you trying to talk her out of this? Do you think they won’t kill you too?"
"We are servants to the princess. We cannot question her judgment in this matter and frankly, I stand by what she is doing," Cyrus honestly answered. The court ministers shouldn’t be able to use Amelia’s marriage and not include her in important meetings. The meeting concerned the future of the people and so far, Amelia was the only one he saw to care for the people.
"Amelia, as your friend-"