"She'll be fine, your highness. Fortunately, the bullet only brushed through her skin and didn't cause any damage." The doctor informed me as he walked out of the operating room, his hands folded beneath his stomach and his head bowed.

A huge burden lifted off my chest the moment he said those words, and I sighed in relief. I'm glad nothing happened to her. I'm not sure what I would have done if the news had been bad. I don't want to bring myself to think of the worst; all that matters ...