"No one is allowed to enter our room. I don't care if it's a maid, a palace physician, the ghosts of my dead brothers… even if my father, the goddamned king of Raxuvia himself showed up outside the doorstep, you have to toss him aside." Rafael was speaking to Orion, a grave look of seriousness on his face.
"Elinora and her family have all sorts of connections in this palace, and I would not put it past them to make a second attempt now that Soleia is weakened."
Soleia personally thought that his list of examples was going slightly overboard, but Orion nodded sincerely. He had rushed over from his room the moment he had heard the news, and his face was lined with guilt at his failure to protect Soleia from harm.
Rafael wanted to punish him for his oversight, but that would be entirely worthless in the grand scheme of things. The deed was done.
