Twenty-six:
Princess Sirena
The Hunting Lodge was homier than the palace. It was still large. It still had too many rooms. Technically, because we were engaged and not married, I should have been staying in a room of my own. There also should have been someone there that was there to chaperone us. Instead, I went to Zale’s room. After having him touch me like that, I couldn’t not be with him. I needed to be near him.
One of his friends had caught us together. It had seemed like we had done something that we weren’t supposed to be doing. But then the girl started talking about how people had thought that the two of us were enemies. I saw the girls face change when we talked about us being together happily.
We had a future together. One that we could actually fight
