Dionne
I turned and I would have broken into a sprint, if it wasn't for the King trailing behind me.
Everything in my body was moving at a speed my legs could barely keep up with. I walked so fast I was half a breath from breaking into a sprint.
I still didn't entirely understand what had just happened in that hallway or why he had said yes, but he'd said yes. That was the only thing that mattered.
The servants' wing was starting to wake up when I got back. There were doors opening, water running, the shuffle of footsteps from behind closed rooms, but the moment we turned the corner into the main corridor of the quarters, everything seemed to go still.
A woman froze in her doorway with a cup of tea halfway to her mouth. Two girls who had been talking quietly at the far end of the hall went completely silent the moment they saw him.
