Chapter 47: Why hadn't you forgiven her?

Violet hadn’t worried at first when Fable didn’t return to the ball with Nikos. It was beautiful, watching them twirling around one another like a pair of swans in the water, for an entire orchestra was nothing compared to the harmony of the two of them together.

And then, between the switching of songs and the twirling dancers, they were gone.

Kenzie had only cheered, sipping the champagne glass triumphantly before she grabbed a protesting Dex for the next dance.

Violet didn’t worry until Nikos came back alone. Until she saw the look of devastation on his face, had seen him ask for Princess Yulia’s hand. Until she saw Nikos dancing with a woman who wasn’t her friend, who had smiled and blushed and laughed with this man and he was dancing with –

That was when Violet panicked.

And that panic didn’t go away.