"I don't have enough words to express my gratitude to you, Your Majesty," Hazelle said as she dropped to her knees the moment Primrose stepped out of the greenhouse. "It feels like I'm still dreaming."
Behind Primrose, the soldiers were carrying away Silas, who was already on the brink of death, perhaps only moments away from taking his last breath.
But Primrose didn't even bother to glance in his direction because the only thing she cared about now was Hazelle.
As Salem once told her, slaves bound by a slave seal would stop aging. They stayed frozen in time, trapped at the same age they were when the seal was placed on them.
In Hazelle's case, she had been sealed when she was only 17. Her real age, however, was around the same as Primrose, or rather, two years older.
Hazelle was 24 years old, yet she had been trapped in her 17-year-old body for years.
To most people, that might sound like a beautiful gift, staying forever young and never worrying about aging.
