Mrs. Robins takes a deep breath, and then begins to tell me the story of her daughter.
“Summer was a servant in the palace. They had her assigned to cleaning up after the women of the palace. She wasn’t important enough to actually interact with them, but she would do their laundry and tend to the mending. Eventually, I think, they wanted her to become a nanny, if either of the princes were to have children.
“It’s difficult for an omega to find work, so she was proud of the work she did. She never complained, never made much of a fuss. From how Summer told it, Evan spotted her first, while she was carrying a bundle of laundry to the servants’ area. He was intrigued, having never seen her before, and followed her…”
Summer was nearly to the door of the servants’ area, where she could p
