“I don’t think you should be too worried,” Mira said as she arranged the things I brought from the boutique.

“It’s not as if she’s going to kill you,” she added, then lifted my leg onto her lap to stretch and massage it.

“You’re healing fast,” she commented about my leg, but I wasn’t really in the mood to respond. The more I thought about it, the more my chest tightened. Why would the Queen Mother send for me? And worst of all, Derek wasn’t around.

Could it be that she ...