Chapter 56: Specimen 11

“WHAT kind of book are you looking for?” Jonathan asked as he stood a few steps away from me inside the king’s library. “Maybe I could help you find it.”

Zachary left the castle after our conversation. He had a private meeting with a woman named ‘Astelle’ at lunch time and since he didn’t know what time he would be back, he told me to take the rest of the day off. I didn’t know who that woman was, her name was just written on Zachary’s planner which Emmet handed to me this morning.

Worse, he didn’t bring any guards when he left the castle which meant that he would be meeting with him… alone. When I first became his secretary, he would bring me wherever he goes whether I liked it or not.

Even during his meetings with the Council where humans were forbidden, he was crazy enough to let me in and to have me occupy the seat closest to him. That seemed to have changed now.

I am inside the very place I had always wanted to visit alone. In the past, I only got to en