Chapter 7
7. The Map
They were walking in silence and Kai wanted to do more for her. He didn’t even know why. He couldn’t
exin it to himself. But she looked worried and it made him unsettled too.
“So, look here,” he showed her the back door that even servants used from time to time. He
remembered it well for the sole reason that it was a weakness in his castle and he made his quards do
regr checks there. “You go left when entering and then you go up the stairs to your floor. You will
probably find yourself in some storage room, so…”
He stopped, thinking of how to exin things to her more clearly while she looked at him with unhidden
curiosity in her eyes. He shouldn’t have been doing this, but, sighing, he took his phone out of his
pocket and within seconds he entered the password for his security app, scrolling through the options
until he found the map of his house. The real one. The one that wasn’t shared with anyone other than
his security people. He would just show her this tower and that was it. There was no way that she
would remember the outline of the secret passage. It would be too short to do even when it came to
simply understanding what she saw.
He started exining to her the turns and the doors she needed to use.
“And thanks to that, you’ll be in the darkest corner of your floor. There, everything will depend on your
luck,” he smiled at her.
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Savannah felt lucky indeed. That gardener did not know what he was doing, showing her this precious
map. But she was looking at the lines greedily, even if just for a few seconds. It was enough for that
image to forever indent into her memory. She wouldn’t be able to forget it. Ever.
“Uhm, got it,” she chewed on her lip, trying not to grin wickedly. This was the best thing he could do for
her. “Thanks,” she nced at him again and noticed his eyes lingering on her mouth.
“You are wee,” he shrugged, and she opened the door. A part of her wanted to ask his name but
she knew that she was better not to. She’d better just leave and forget about what happened.
But as she took another step, he gripped her hand and spun her to face him again, crashing his lips
into hers for thatst taste…
It took them both longer than they realised. Savvy only managed to push him away when Kyle tried to
mind link her again.
“I need to go!” she said more to herself than to him, her breathing still ragged.
The maid ran away and Kai stared at the door in front of him. It was a while since he felt this … lost.
Lost in his own feelings.
He had to snap out of it and get back to what he was supposed to be doing. But before he left too, he
mind linked his head guard and his sister.
“I want both of you to leave the contenders alone. No one should be on their floors now. No one should
be in the tower as well.” He shut the connection, knowing that no one would dare to disobey his direct
order. A little smile tugged at his lips. At least he could do something for the
little maid. Even if this had to be the end of their story.
Savannah reached the corridor that led to her room and listened, before sneaking back into her
bedroom. Kyle and Zara were already gone and she let them know that she had seeded. before
taking a quick shower and going to bed.
And for the first time in a while, her mate wasn’t the one she was thinking about when she drifted off to
thend of dreams.
***
“Are you sure about this?” Zara was helping with the sp of a blue sapphire and diamond ne,
while Kyle was working on the mask. “I still think we should have gone with the golden
one.”
“Something tells me that most girls will be wearing gold since they all want to send the message that
they are worthy of being queens,” Savvy smirked, looking at herself in the mirror.
They had already done her hair and now she had it up in a rxed braided crown with a low messy
bun with a few loose curls here and there. The braid was a traditional northern one and for
a very good reason.
“Shouldn’t you do the same?” Kyle gave her a reproachful look.
“Why?” she scoffed. “I don’t have to prove that I can be a queen. I am probably the only one of pure
royal blood here. I need to prove something else – that I can belong here even despite being a
westerner.”
“Sounds reasonable to me,” Zara sprayed something over her hair and added thest sapphire hairpin.
“This is why my dress is dusky blue,” Savvy chuckled. “In the olden days it used to be the traditional
bridal dress colour in the North. They wore it with fur, but fur would be too much nowadays.’ So, that’s
why I asked my seamstress to add a few feathers to finish the look instead, to create a simr effect
and shape. Who knew that these would be the circumstances of me wearing that dress?! But I am
happy that I thought about that before arriving here.”
“Good thing that you got their trick with the dress code,” Kyle snorted. “That was so low of them, to be
honest.”
“What did you expect after they arranged all that just to get rid of me?” Savvy giggled. Somehow it was
easier for her now. She had a mission, and she didn’t have to get married. Life was getting better. And
in no way was it because of her kisses with the gardener. Nope, that definitely didn’t have anything to
do with that.
Zara helped her to attach the mask and Savannah gave her friends thest twirl. The pale blue fabric
was heavy, but the feathers were making it look like it was floating in the air. The glimmering silver
sequins and beads were like little sprinkles of night stars. But what she loved the most about this off-
shoulder dress was the split front that allowed her freedom of movement and gave a good view of her
legs.
It was very… her.
Someone knocked on her door and Zara rushed to open it. She was wearing an elegant ck dress
with arge golden bird ps on her left shoulder.