Pretending

Blaze and Bella are walking inside the palace hand in hand. They are walking towards the throne room, where she will be formally announced as the queen of the dark realm. Bella is now more alert than ever. She can see who is genuinely happy to see them together and who is not. Amanda and her mother are pretending that they are happy for her, but the tightening of their fists is an indication that they are not.

She can see a few advisors who don't look much happy either. She immediately recognized Lord Michael, who is beaming with happiness. Her eyes stopped on a certain advisor, who has a blank look on his face. The others are either smiling or frowning. But this one is hiding his emotions behind a blank mask.

"Interesting" she murmured.

Blaze heard her comment. So he used their mind link to ask her what's happening inside her head.

'What is so interesting?' he asked

'Did you notice advisor Stephen?' She asked him.

Blaze nonchalantly l