He Sold Me Into Slavery I Returned As Queen Chapter 23
Later, Alaric requested an audience at the palace.
I refused.
He waited outside for an hour, then asked a guard to deliver a box inside.
In it were my childhood copybooks, a gold bracelet, and a faded paper rabbit lantern.
Tessa said quietly, “Alpha Alaric said he kept them all this time.”
I looked at the rabbit lantern.
The frame had gone brittle, the paper yellowed with age.
I thought of the Full Moon Festival fifteen years ago.
Cedric had lured me out by saying he would take me to buy a rabbit lantern.
Back then, I had wanted to buy two.
One for myself.
The other for Rosalie.
I closed the lid of the box.
“Send it back.”
Tessa froze.
“Your Highness?”
I said, “Tell him this.”
“The lantern is old.”
“And his daughter can’t go back to being a child again.”