Chapter Six
The female guards are gentle but firm. They guide me back into the elevator, then down several hallways before depositing me into a room. No, I realize as I look around. Not a room. A suite.
Although this is only one of several rooms on the third floor of the palace, it is larger than many penthouses I’ve been in. And that’s saying something. There’s a separate section for the bedroom, a kitchenette, and a huge open seating area filled with silk-covered pillows and a huge wrap-around couch. I bet it could fit at least twenty people, easy. Everything is richly-colored in warm hues ranging from deep orange to fiery pink. And other than an ornate medallion-print carpet, every surface, including the wallpaper, features satin, silk, and/or straight up gold-leaf.
In the middle of
