Madeline’s POV

“Your Highness?” he called me.

“You know what?” I cut him off with a smile. “Please call me by my real name. Madeline.”

He blinked repeatedly. “Oh, I almost forgot that you are not the countess,” he said. “You are Madeline, the mortal assassin in your time.”

I don’t know. His statement slightly offended me, and I just realized one thing. Countess Marissa and Madeline were not the same. We have one body right now, but we are different.

“You told me that I ...