Are You All Right, Your Highness?

Chapter 202

'What on earth does he mean by a mistake?'

Iveline bit down hard on the inside of her cheek, trying to hide her confusion as best she could.

It felt as if her thought process were breaking down in real time.

When Cassian admitted, 'It was a mistake on Iris's and my part,'

anyone with even a modicum of intelligence would have felt relieved, thinking, 'Oh, they really did feel guilty about riding around in such an outrageously huge carriage!'

The sensible thing would have been to realize she'd jumped to an overly negative conclusion.

But for Iveline, the Imperial Princess who'd been praised as a genius to the point of exhaustion since childhood for her sharp mind and magical talent,

the obvious truth only sent her spiraling into an even greater misunderstanding.

'What on earth is going on? The great being really isn't testing me or playing some sort of trick—he's sincerely apologizing for an honest mistake?'...