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*Isla*

“Lift the curse?”

I can’t help but repeat the phrase Commander Pepelos has just said to me. Confusion washes over me, not for the first time. “What are you talking about?” I ask him. “How do you know all of this about Maatua?”

He shakes his head. “I don’t think this is the right place to discuss this, Your Highness. Why don’t we go inside, into your private chambers, and we can discuss it there.”

“My private chambers?” Nothing he has said makes the statement sound suggestive at all, but I am wondering what people will think if they find out I have some strange man in my room, not a half an hour after Maddox has left the castle to go find out what is happening with the war.

“Or the library. Whatever room you think is most secure.” He walks to the exterior door and pulls it open, gesturing for me to walk inside first.

I do and nod my thanks, and the two of us are relatively quiet as we walk down the hallway.

I am leading him to my room. Not on purpose, but I’m considering everyth
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I wonder what Antony’s agenda aside from lifting the curse in the Island… is he Mary’s son? If he is, why he can’t just go directly to his mother. If feel like there’s about Antony that is sinister…
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