Prince, Cinderella Forsakes You novel · Chapter 18 of 32

Chapter 18: The Garden

I went to the palace in my one spare dress, the brown one, with the darns.

Dulcie wanted to lend me her jacket. I said no.

"If he wants a thief," I said, "he can have one who looks like she's worked."

Cassian came with me. His hands were still two white paws.

The guards at the palace gate tried to keep him out.

He looked at them. They stopped trying.

The throne room was long and gold, full of courtiers in silk who turned to watch us walk the whole length of it.

A woman held a scented handkerchief to her nose when Cassian passed.

At the far end sat the King of Avenmoor.

He was a heavy gray man with Florian's eyes and none of his softness.

Florian stood at his right hand, very pale. The frost on his lip had spread to the corner of his mouth.

I didn't curtsey. I'd never learned how.

The King looked me over from my boots to my hair.

"So this is the orchard keeper's girl," he said.

"I'm Clemence Merriwether, Majesty."

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