"While you're still finding your words, might I ask for your Royal Highness' first dance at the first ball?"
In the days that followed, those words repeated in Ember's head. Yet for someone that audaciously asked for her first dance, Khaos BlueBlood didn't make another attempt to reach out to her.
Almost as if he was allowing her to stew in their last encounter and make up her mind with regards to what they discussed.
But now that her mind had been nudged in the right direction, Ember decided that she would rather play daughter than subject. Which was why the next morning, she found herself in the Queen's garden.