Hunting Party?
That sounded suspiciously like the plot of an aristocratic romantasy novel.
Didn't the protagonist always meet the Crown Prince at those?
Or stumble into an assassination attempt?
Mirabelle's stomach tightened with dark foreboding. The fact that she was currently living inside something that increasingly resembled a romantasy novel was not helping.
Meanwhile, Silas turned his attention toward the Duchess.
He had expected the Queen of Bergheim to summon them eventually. He simply hadn't expected it to happen this quickly.
He had accompanied his mother to several negotiations surrounding the peace treaty and therefore already knew the Queen.
She was warmer than his mother.
Just as calculating.
After Mirabelle's speech, however, he knew she wasn't particularly fond of the Queen.
So how exactly would their first meeting go?
Lucien frowned as well.
He had already heard quite a bit about the Queen's Hunting Parties...
His mother had attended several of them.
