Chapter 223
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Azalea POV
Later That Afternoon.
We sat on the cellar floor, going through documents and photographs. Tandi would hand them off toAbbie when she was done, who would re–stack them back in the boxes. Yet the longer we dug througheverything, the more disheartened Tandi became.
“How old would Paige be now?” I ask her.
“Seven in February,” she answers with a sigh.
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“I‘m her mother, and she has a scar. She had a scar down one side of her face, required stitches, wentfrom her chin to her hairline. She fell off the stairs when she was three and landed on a glass table,”she tells me.
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“Well, I will start with this pile,” I tell her. Tandi spoke so easily of such tragic circ*mstances, as ifdesensitized to her own trauma, it saddened me how much she had suffered since I last saw her at theorphanage, back when she was Taylor
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“Hun?” he asks as she walks toward the stairs. She pulls her arm away before he can grab her andruns off up the stairs and he turns looking at me and Abbie.
“None of them were Paige,” I tell him, heartbroken for Tandi. She was so excited when we came downhere only to leave heartbroken. Damian swallows, staring after her as she takes off.
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“Go, Damian, take the afternoon off. I will speak to Kyson and let him know,” I tell him and he‘ nods.
“Thank you, Azalea,” he says, rushing off after her. Abbie and I pack everything up before climbing thestairs and coming out of the pantry. Yet as I do, I see Tanner, the gardener in the kitchen looking ratherlost, clutching his wide brim hat in hands as he looked around the kitchen. He jumps when we comebehind him.
“Tanner, what can I help you with?” Clarice says, coming back into the kitchens from where ever shewas.
Tanner looks at me but addresses Clarice. “I was going to see if you could ask the King or Queen for afew moments of their time,” Clarice growls and I hadn‘t heard her growl at anyone in anger before.
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ce. What is wrong,
. You don‘t need to handle this one,” Clarice
Queen,” Tanner calls o
as done?” Clarice snarls, spinning on her he
helped raise him with me, you know howuseless his grandp
but nod my head and he turns to leave. Claricewatche
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d him out, and he...” Ta
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stables at night,” Tanner says, wh
eams at him. Tanner flinches at
s he now?
ss the river without being seen, my Queen. Iknow what he
tell him, but he
moment you kicked them out ofhere, she left when no one was watchin
anner pauses to think for a sec
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to you, I can bring him here if you li
eat,” Clarice says, grabbing
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sheshis chair out and pats his knee, wanting me to come sit on his lap. I walk over to him and
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could see kyson found his
s carcoordinates and it says he is in your kingdom, My King, so one would assume you had seen
g information you hav
ything alright in your Kingdom? I have been
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one of my workers was kidnappedby one of your guards and eight
security footage, which I found rather odd.Then Lark
ngdom and more worried about yours. Rumors areci
Crux asks in a tone that
back to the counc
racking data. When you find Larkin, ask hi
hanging up on him and gla
