AMALTHEA'S POV

"Now, are you going to explain why you were pretending to be unconscious near the walls of the garden, which is close to the blue rose garden, whose walls are the lowest in the palace?" King Augustus asked me with a smirk, and judging from his confident gaze, I already knew I was busted, thus, I didn't extend my pretentious act and just smiled back at him.

"I was pretending to be unconscious so that someone could come and take me inside the palace. I was tired. It takes a lot of effort to jump over a wall two times that to be when I am injured because...