smile off our faces any more than we could keep our hands off each other, even if it had to be in an appropriate way. Life was indeed beyond grand. I let out a sigh of pure satisfaction as I glanced around me at the splendor of the castle, even if just the entrance way, that I’d never if I lived here a hundred years, get used to. I jumped, letting out a little noise, a squeak of a cry, making Lex pull me to him when we were stopped immediately by a woman from the staff who appeared to be waiting just for us. The petite woman with hair pulled back in a tight bun had looked out of place just sitting in a chair by the front door, one ornate and purely for decoration, but had startled me when she’d jumped to her feet in front of us. The whole thing was odd from the woman being there to the way she’d moved, quick, uncomfortable, her face tight, stressed. Staff didn’t sit around here. Not that they were treated badly or even overworked, not by a long shot. The Royals had to be a gift to work for as far as I had witnessed, and so the whole staff seemed to work tirelessly, and happily for their bosses.
