Chapter 18: Prince Jai

“Hurry…” I all but barked at the servants who rushed to do my bidding. My servants could barely keep up with me as I bustled around my room with excitement. I was barely able to stand still long enough to get dressed.

“Your Highness, decorum…” I grinned over my shoulder at him as I hustled out of my palace and crossed the courtyard to the Emperor’s palace. Poor Eunuch Van had to run to keep up.

“Grandfather I’m here.” I never stand on ceremony when we’re alone. It’s something he had instigated when I was much younger, when grandmother was alive.

In the presence of others, I of course carried myself in the manner befitting a Prince of the realm. But when alone we were family and behaved as such.

I knelt in front of him, shaking with excitement. If this indeed concerned my beauty and her family, now will be my chance to ask about her and see where the ground lay.