Serena Hale leaned against the open doorway to a private meeting room. Her hair fell down around her shoulders and she had been given a change of clothes. Out of the bloody fighting leathers she'd worn for the trials, she was now dressed in a tight black top, leather jacket and flexible leggings.

The three princes; Jackson, James, and Denver, all had their reservations about a girl being their bodyguard, but their mother and father, the king and queen, shut their protests down very quickly.