Chapter 29: A World Turned Upside Down

Ella’s POV

I stared at Noah, my legs shaking as I tried to steady myself. The room around me tilted, the walls and light blending together until I could hardly breathe. He stood there in the royal living room, but he didn’t look like the Noah I had known in the labour room. Gone were the worn clothes and quiet posture of a worker. He wore a black silk tunic trimmed with gold, the kind of fabric only nobles could touch. Even the way he carried himself ...