Minerva batted her eyelashes at me and pushed her shoulders back. "Do I look lonely?" she said.
She looked like someone I wanted to push onto her back right then and there. Like someone I wanted to kiss until we were both dizzy. But there were things you didn't say to a princess, not when your station was so far below hers.
***
On her first day working as a maid, Eve finds the king dead on his throne. His murder kicks off a cascade of intrigue, and as the plots of the nobility come crashing down around her, Eve is torn between hungry princes, the ever-watching eyes of the royal court, and a mad princess who seems to know far more than she lets on. Complicating everything further is the Imperative, a magical curse through which the Andan nobles have bent the world to their whims. If she is to survive, Eve must learn what it means to find strength in the face of overwhelming power.
The Maid and the Monarch is created by EOK Gifford-Smith, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Maid and the Monarch

When the Court of Whispers gathered, it was to pass judgement on those who had broken the sacred code of the underground, or to consider the addition of new rings of illicit activity to our network. My first meeting--


No. Wait. I thrashed against the memory, pulling myself back into darkness. Who cared about the Court of Whispers. I was with Minerva, it was just about to get GOOD.


Blind and hopelessly lost, I--or, a piece of me? Just my mind? Just my consciousness? The grammar in this situation was very difficult--wandered through the abyss of my memories, trying to find my way back to the tower and my first night with Minerva.


Memories of Minerva and I were sure to bring me back to waking sooner. That was my motivation. Definitely. Not some desire to live through one of the best nights of my life a second time. Who would even think of that? Not me.


Chapter 30: Remembering V