“What are you doing here?!” I hear Theo hisses.

I wake up at his voice. I am crouching in the corner as I rub my eyes and open them. I feel like I have only slept for an hour. The embers on the fireplace have dwindled and I only see shadows. Theo is still in front of the fireplace, but he is with another person.

“My ability allows me to enter any barrier created by magic,” a woman’s voice answers.

“Princess Kissa! You will be my concubine but you should not do this while we are still within Orttenburg castle!”

“My King, it doesn’t matter. Seth and my other siblings...