"I've been wondering where you were." The familiarity in her voice as she spoke to him dug into her. She was also disturbed by the beauty for a reason she couldn't pinpoint.
Standing next to her, Kiera was like the shadow she had cast off. It was at that moment that she understood what the baron referred to when he spoke. The two women were like night and day.
"I should have known you would be with your friends." Kiera felt a bubbling sense of trouble brewing inside her as the word passed through her thin and lovely lips. Her words pointedly made it seem as if Kiera was also one of the third prince's friends.
"I extend my greetings to the Western Kingdom's Crown Prince Edgar." Her sky-blue eyes went to the Crown Prince as she curtsied. A curtsy had never looked so dignified or noble to Kiera before, but once the young woman did it she finally realized why the humans held in their laughter every time she attempted a curtsy.
