**Amber POV

I didn’t want him to see me like this.

I was ashamed, humiliated, and tired of having a target on my back.

I wanted to go back to my life before, as a maid, where no one noticed me. I felt safer that way.

Now, I felt so open, vulnerable, and exposed.

When the prince came in and saw tears flowing from my eyes, I cowered away from him.

It wasn’t because I didn’t appreciate ...