It seemed as though everything deteriorated; in Lily's case, it was as though she jumped from the pan and into the fire. Her little chat with Fahd revealed more than Lily could have bargained for, and she did not know how to deal with it all. Her life was in danger from someone the king trusted.

"What did Fahd do?" The queen asked Lily, and for that split second, Lily did not know what to say to the queen.

"Is it true that the King is still going forward with my execution?" Lily asked her mother-in-law; she did not even have to ask any further because the look on the...