Chapter 75: Cassandra Desper
The carriage ran through the busy night streets of Swamp Creek. The ride was a bit bumpy, but that was the least of the princess’s problems. Evelyn bowed like a knight to introduce herself.
She was not a knight in the perfect sense but an assassin. What was he thinking? Was he suspicious of her from the start? Abrielle wondered, her hand gripping her silk dress to control her nervousness.
Not only did he assign an assassin to keep an eye on her but the second strongest person among his elite squad. Cedric’s hand-picked and trained men were given numbers according to their strength, with Elias being number one.
It was a secret unit hidden away from the King’s eye. What left Abrielle devastated was the fact Evelyn was shadow 2 seconds in strength to Elias and probably Cedric’s strongest assassin.
It meant either of two things, one, Cedric cared about her safety and thought highly of her that he spared his second best to look after her or the second reason.
Cedric was cautious and didn’t want to take any risk in the worst scenario. He had to get rid of her immediately. This never happened in the novel, as Cedric paid little to no attention to Abrielle, and that was what she was hoping for this time around, too.
" What is your actual name?" Abrielle requests to check the level of loyalty. Evelyn wasn’t her real name; if she was solely loyal to Cedric, she would refuse to reveal that information to her.
Evelyn’s eyes squinted suspiciously for a second, hesitant evidence on her face. Abrielle scoffed inwards, concluding it was the later option. Evelyn was Cedric’s blade ready to cut off her head at any second he gave the signal.
Evelyn’s mouth parted and she said with hesitance. "I prefer you refer to me as Evelyn. It’s the name his highness gave me, but if it fits the princess to call me another name, you can call me Cassandra Desper." Evelyn revealed.