"Did you sleep well, my lady?" He asks with a gentle smile.

The question catches her off guard, images of the night before, with Quell and the mounting stand flashes in her mind. She coughs, choking on her juice; Coral can feel her face turn bright red, "Um...yes, thank you Prince Vadim," she manages to choke out, her eyes briefly flashing to catch a smirk on Quell's handsome face.

She spends the rest of the time eating her breakfast in silence, listening to the idle conversations of the family around her. When Rainer chastises Wistan for drinking too much the night before, a smile reaches her lips and she oddly...