Chapter 132 King's Secret Ch4

• The gardens behind the palace should be quiet this late. The marble fountains hush secrets into the roses, moonlight dripping silver over trimmed hedges and the ancient stone path they used to race down as children. Back when secrets were soft and promises were innocent.
• But there’s nothing innocent now.
• She shivers as he pins her against the cold marble of the old sundial, the same place they once hid sweets and scribbled names into the stone with stolen knives. His crown glints crooked on his dark hair, half-shadowed by the vines he crushed reaching for her.