Liora blinked. “Excuse me?”
“You heard me.” My voice was calm, almost bored. “I’m the queen. My place is beside the king. So get your stupid ass out of my seat.”
The room sucked in a collective breath.
Nicholas growled low in his throat. “Hazel, stop this nonsense at once.”
I turned to him, gave him the sweetest smile I could muster.
“Would you like me to tell them what happened last night?”
He started coughing—hard—like he’d inhaled his own tongue. His face turned red. Eyes watering. He pounded his chest once, twice, trying to cover it with a fist.
I raised an eyebrow. “That’s what I thought.”
I swung my gaze back to Liora.
“Now. Get. Up.”
“You can’t do that,” she hissed. “You’re not welcome here. This is—”
I didn’t let her finish.
I stepped forward, grabbed the back of her ch
