EOK Gifford-Smith

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.
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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

This wasn't helping. Frustrated and bitter, I pulled away from the memory of Minerva and I sleeping together. Every moment I was in here was a moment I wasn't spending protecting the real princess--not just my recollection of her.


I had already been under too long. If brute force of will didn't work, and following my memories didn't work, what would? I thought hard, trying to piece together a solution. Something had sent me under. Perhaps it could wake me up as well.


What had she said to me? Minerva had said: "Remember, remember what I have told you to forget."


What had she told me to forget? A great many things, apparently. My past as a criminal, our relationship together, nearly everything about my life prior to meeting her. Given the sheer quantity of what the Imperative had hidden from me, it was no wonder my mind felt this scrambled.


But there it was. When exactly had she asked me to forget? Why? Those were the questions I needed to answer.


Chapter 31: Remembering VI