Chapter 38

• Sophie didn’t see or hear from the king again for the next couple of days and honestly, she liked it and hoped he would stay away continuously and not come near her again. The day the stuff happened and he had said he would come back for her. She had expected the guards to show up and throw her out of the emerald house and back to prison but nothing like that happened. That day went by as usual with only the maids who came to give her food showing up at the right time. There was no talk of what happened with the king, and neither did any of the guards show up to throw her out. The next day and the other day that followed were also spent panicking, wondering if the king was taking his time and plotting how he would send her away in the cruelest way, but after three days of no news from him, she began to relax again. Today, she decided to clean the house, she woke up early and went about tidying everything in the three rooms and then the living room, when she was done, she took her bath before she ate the breakfast that was brought to her, if only they would just let her make her own food in the kitchen that was in the house, it would have been nice but she asked Emily, she didn’t reply to her.
• “I kind of want him to show up so I can ask him but then, I still eat regardless, he should keep staying away,”
• She told herself. Being alone almost all the time with no one to talk to, she kind of developed a new habit of talking to herself.