章 21: The Marriage Proposal

Electra's Pov 

 I took a deep breath, trying to keep my temper in check as I stood just outside the doors of the meeting hall. My fingers curled into tight fists at my sides, and I felt so much tension in my chest. It always feels like this when I'm about to face my parents, especially my mother.

The message had come unexpectedly, delivered through the principal as a curt and formal request for me to return home immediately, and the moment I received it, I knew something was wrong.

  My father would never call for me unless it's absolutely necessary, and my mother? Well, she never calls for me at all. She had sent me off to boarding school years ago and was content to keep me as far away from her as possible.

 It wasn't exactly a secret within the palace that she couldn't stand the sight of me.