Chapter 7

Elena pov

"Your whole life?" I asked.

The hope that has started to rise inside me was falling fast. But Delaney looks happy as she nodded.

"Yes, of course. My mother was a refugee who fled in this land. I was born here in service." She smiled and I didn't know what to think.

"It not uncommon to be born into service, right?"

She was right. That was a very normal thing to happen, even in my kingdom. If your mother was a maid, you were often a maid too, and so on.

Despite that, there was still something about what she said that wasn't common, something I...