IMPORTANT-**To learn about the King's background (prequel) please read a few chapters of volume 2 that starts from chapter 561**
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She didn't know why, but Madeline found it hard to tear her eyes away from the man. Though there were no chains or ropes that bound her, strangely she felt captive under his eyes. Like an iron being attracted to magnets, she finally felt herself relax when the woman who was with him spoke, taking his attention but not all of it.
Madeline tried to not look at the man and instead at the person who she was dancing with. She couldn't help but wonder who he was, someone like a phantom who had taken her name but had not returned it with his.
"Who is it?" she heard Mr. Hane ask her.
Her light eyebrows drew together, "What?"
